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B00158 A most excellent godly new ballad: [shew]ing the manifold abuses of this wicked world, the intolerable pride of people, the wantonnesse [of] women, the dissimulation of flatterers, the subtilty of deceiuers, the beastlines of drunkards, the filthinesse of whoredome, the vnthriftines of gamesters, the cruelty of landlords, with a number of other inconucadences. To the tune of Greene-sleeues. 1615 (1615) STC 1328.7; Interim Tract Supplement Guide BR f 821.04 B49[4a]; ESTC S2499 1,283 1

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