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A67600 The court convert: or, A sincere sorrow for sin, faithfully travers'd expressing the dignity of a true penitent. Drawn in little by one, whose manifold misfortunes abroad, have render'd him necessitated, to seek for shelter here; by dedicating himself and this small poem. By H.A. gent. H. W. (Henry Waring) 1695 (1695) Wing W856AA; ESTC R219546 6,727 45

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