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death_n apprehension_n eternal_a great_a 71 3 2.1072 3 false
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A66253 Preparation for death being a letter sent to a young gentlewoman in France, in a dangerous distemper of which she died. Wake, William, 1657-1737. 1687 (1687) Wing W253; ESTC R5512 22,586 170

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