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A10244 The praise and dispraise of women very fruitfull to the well disposed minde, and delectable to the readers therof. And a fruitfull shorte dialogue vppon the sentence, know before thou knitte. C. Pyrrye. Pyrrye, C. 1569 (1569) STC 20523; ESTC S110560 15,885 66

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