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A16660 Essaies vpon the fiue senses with a pithie one vpon detraction. Continued vvith sundry Christian resolues, full of passion and deuotion, purposely composed for the zealously-disposed. By Rich: Brathwayt Esquire. Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673. 1620 (1620) STC 3566; ESTC S104664 39,531 154

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