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cause_n good_a life_n see_v 2,826 5 3.2572 3 true
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A39141 An Elegy on the glorious death of Col. John Okey who suffered at Tyburn, the 19th of April, 1662. 1662 (1662) Wing E417A; ESTC R36135 1,115 1

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