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A09790 The education or bringinge vp of children, translated oute of Plutarche by syr Thomas Eliot knyght; De educatione puerorum. English Plutarch.; Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546. 1532 (1532) STC 20057; ESTC S110517 21,939 49

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