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A13502 Taylors feast contayning twenty-seaven dishes of meate, without bread, drinke, meate, fruite, flesh, fish, sawce, sallats, or sweet-meats, only a good stomacke, &c. Being full of variety and witty mirth. By John Taylor. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1638 (1638) STC 23798; ESTC S111405 26,775 108

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