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A44634 The English monsieur a comical novel : wherein his travells, amours, and other passages of his life no less strange than delightful, are faithfully set down by an impartial hand : in four parts. Howard, James, fl. 1672-1674. 1679 (1679) Wing H2981_VARIANT; ESTC R31537 64,401 186

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