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friend_n bring_v good_a life_n 960 5 4.0213 3 true
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A47404 Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets; Selections. 1700 King, Henry, 1592-1669. 1700 (1700) Wing K497; ESTC R17230 44,767 174

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