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A05679 The portraiture of hypocrisie, liuely and pithilie pictured in her colours wherein you may view the vgliest and most prodigious monster that England hath bredde.; Portraiture of hypocrisie, lively and pithilie pictured in her colours Bate, John, M.A. 1589 (1589) STC 1579; ESTC S101572 70,120 198

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