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A13401 The second booke of the Garden of wysedome wherin are conteyned wytty, pleasaunt, and nette sayenges of renowmed personages collected by Rycharde Tauerner anno. M.D.XXXIX. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.; Garden of wysdom. Book 2 Taverner, Richard, 1505?-1575.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. Apophthegmata. 1542 (1542) STC 23713; ESTC S111350 25,134 97

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