Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n
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A35785
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The husband forc'd to be jealous, or, The good fortune of those women that have jealous husbands a translation by N. H.
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Villedieu, Madame de, d. 1683.
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1668
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Wing D1188A; ESTC R32399
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