Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n
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No-body, and some-body· With the true chronicle historie of Elydure, who was fortunately three seuerall times crowned King of England. The true coppy thereof, as it hath beene acted by the Queens Maiesties Seruants.
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STC 18597; ESTC S113225
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