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A41292 Fifteen real comforts of matrimony being in requital of the late fifteen sham comforts, with satirical reflections on whoring and the debauchery of this age / written by a person of quality of the female sex. 1683 (1683) Wing F887; ESTC R34438 54,358 147

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