Selected quad for the lemma: death_n
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A11051
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The mirrour of vertue in worldly greatnes. Or The life of Syr Thomas More Knight, sometime Lo. Chancellour of England
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Roper, William, 1496-1578.
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1626
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STC 21316; ESTC S116166
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