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A02129 Mamillia A mirrour or looking-glasse for the ladies of Englande. Wherein is disciphered, howe gentlemen vnder the perfect substaunce of pure loue, are oft inueigled with the shadowe of lewde lust: and their firme faith, brought a sleepe by fading fancie: vntil with ioyned with wisedome, doth awake it by the helpe of reason. By Robert Greene graduate in Cambridge.; Mamillia. Part 1 Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592. 1583 (1583) STC 12269; ESTC S119748 60,462 82

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