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A20507 The drousie disease; or, An alarme to awake church-sleepers Wherein not onely the dangers hereof are described, but remedies also prescribed for this sleeping evill.; Drousie disease. 1638 (1638) STC 6913.5; ESTC S122417 51,584 164

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