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friend_n bring_v great_a life_n 974 5 3.9373 3 true
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A36344 More shams still, or, A further discovery of the designs of the Papists to impose upon the nation the belief of their feigned Protestant or Presbyterian plot by Thomas Dangerfield. Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685. 1681 (1681) Wing D191; ESTC R24288 25,730 39

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