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A09138 Pasquils iestes mixed with Mother Bunches merriments. Whereunto is added a bakers doozen of guiles. Very prettie and pleasant, to driue away the tediousnesse of a winters evening. Pasquil.; Fennor, William, attributed name. aut 1609 (1609) STC 19451.5; ESTC S106447 35,222 52

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