Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n
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A05679
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The portraiture of hypocrisie, liuely and pithilie pictured in her colours wherein you may view the vgliest and most prodigious monster that England hath bredde.; Portraiture of hypocrisie, lively and pithilie pictured in her colours
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Bate, John, M.A.
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1589
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STC 1579; ESTC S101572
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