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A54037 The great and sole troubler of the times represented in a mapp of miserie, or, A glimpse of the heart of man which is the fountain from whence all misery flows, and the source into which it runs back. Drawn with a dark pencill, by a dark hand, in the midst of darkness. Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. 1649 (1649) Wing P1170; ESTC R33048 16,712 32

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