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A09799 Three [morall] treatises no lesse pleasau[nt] than necessary for all men to read[e,] wherof the one is called the learned prince, the other the fruites of foes, the thyrde the porte of rest.; Moralia. Selections. English Plutarch.; Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561. 1561 (1561) STC 20063.5; ESTC S110436 42,324 138

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