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A91574 Solomons recantation, entituled Ecclesiastes, paraphrased. With a soliloquie or meditation upon every chapter. / By Francis Quarles. Opus posthumum. Never before printed. With a short relation of his life and death. Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.; Quarles, Ursula, b. 1601. 1645 (1645) Wing Q116; Thomason E284_13; ESTC R200060 37,689 73

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