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A03792 The troubled mans medicine verye profitable to be redde of al men wherein they may learne pacyently to suffer all kyndes of aduersitie made [and] wrytten by wyllyam Hughe to a frende of his. Hugh, William, d. 1549. 1546 (1546) STC 13910; ESTC S109482 59,726 236

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