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A56079
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A Protestant antidote against Popery with a brief discourse of the great atheisticalness and vain amours now in fashion. Written in a letter to a young lady. By a Person of Honour.
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Person of honour.
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1673
(1673)
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Wing P3820; ESTC R220564
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