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A02399 A treatise of morall phylosophie contaynyng the sayinges of the wyse. Gathered and Englyshed by Wyl[lia]m Baldwyn. Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563? 1547 (1547) STC 1253; ESTC S100585 85,509 281

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