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A43170 Nugæ venales, or, Complaisant companion being new jests, domestick and forreign, bulls, rhodomontados, pleasant novels and miscellanies. Head, Richard, 1637?-1686? 1675 (1675) Wing H1266; ESTC R30764 118,870 333

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