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A04725 Lady Pecunia, or The praise of money Also a combat betwixt conscience and couetousnesse. Togither with, the complaint of poetry, for the death of liberality. Newly corrected and inlarged, by Richard Barnfield, graduate in Oxford.; Encomion of Lady Pecunia Barnfield, Richard, 1574-1627. 1605 (1605) STC 1486; ESTC S104488 13,933 52

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