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B07677 The schoole of good manners. Or, A new schoole of vertue. Teaching children & youth how they ought to behaue themselues in all companies, times, and places. / Translated out of French. By W.F..; ABC ou instruction pour les petis enfans. English. 1595 Phiston, William. 1595 (1595) STC 10922.5; ESTC S92539 28,539 81

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