Selected quad for the lemma: death_n
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A01792
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A discourse of the great crueltie of a widowe towardes a yong gentleman, and by what meanes he requited the same. Set forth in English verse by Iohn God
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God, John.
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1570
(1570)
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STC 11927; ESTC S105738
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