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A16814 Wonders worth the hearing VVhich being read or heard in a winters euening, by a good fire, or a summers morning, in the greene fields: may serue both to purge melancholy from the minde, & grosse humours from the body. Pleasant for youth, recreatiue for age, profitable for all, and not hurtfull to any. Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? 1602 (1602) STC 3714; ESTC S115952 19,622 31

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