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A15519 A right excellent and famous comedy, called The three ladies of London VVherein is notablie declared and set forth, how by the meanes of lucar, loue and conscience is so corrupted, that the one is married to dissimulation, the other fraught with all abhomination. A perfect patterne for all estates to looke into, and a worke right worthie to be marked. Written by R.W. as it hath been publiquely plaied.; Three ladies of London. Wilson, Robert, d. 1600. 1592 (1592) STC 25785; ESTC S111803 39,779 48

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