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The anatomie of baseness. Or the foure quarters of a knaue flatterie, ingratitude, enuie, detraction.
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Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.
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1615
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STC 587; ESTC S100156
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infâ—_fw-la tuniâ—_n inuidia_fw-la virtute_fw-la parta_fw-la gloria_fw-la non_fw-la inuidia_fw-la putanda_fw-la est_fw-la hic_fw-la niger_n est_fw-la etc._n etc._n loquacit_fw-la aâ—_n certissimum_fw-la fatuitatis_fw-la argumentum_fw-la eras_n