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A13996 A discourse of death, bodily, ghostly, and eternall nor vnfit for souldiers warring, seamen sayling, strangers trauelling, women bearing, nor any other liuing that thinkes of dying. By Thomas Tuke. Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. 1613 (1613) STC 24307; ESTC S100586 74,466 126

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