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A16163
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A friendlie communcication or dialogue betweene Paule and Damas wherein is disputed how we are to vse the pleasures of this life. By Samuel Byrd, Master of Art, and fellow not long since of Benet Colledge.
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Bird, Samuel, d. 1604.
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1580
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STC 3086; ESTC S102321
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