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A59997 VVits labyrinth, or, A briefe and compendious abstract of most witty, ingenious, wise, and learned sentences and phrases together with some hundreds of most pithy, facetious and patheticall complementall expressions / collected, compiled and set forth for the benefit, pleasure or delight of all, but principally the English nobility and gentry by J.S., gent. Shirley, James, 1596-1666. 1648 (1648) Wing S3494; ESTC R10940 22,813 63

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