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B00127 The cruell shrow: or, The patient mans vvoe. Declaring the misery, and the great paine, by his vnquiet wife he doth dayly sustaine. To the tune of Cuckolds all arowe. Halliarg, Arthur. 1640 (1640) STC 12724; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.7[28] 1,572 1

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