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A16650 Ar't asleepe husband? A boulster lecture; stored with all variety of witty jeasts, merry tales, and other pleasant passages; extracted, from the choicest flowers of philosophy, poesy, antient and moderne history. Illustrated with examples of incomparable constancy, in the excellent history of Philocles and Doriclea. By Philogenes Panedonius. Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, ill. 1640 (1640) STC 3555; ESTC S106153 141,213 368

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