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A68557 Pasquils palinodia, and his progresse to the tauerne where after the suruey of the sellar, you are presented with a pleasant pynte of poeticall sherry. Pasquil.; Fennor, William, attributed name. 1619 (1619) STC 19453.7; ESTC S114187 15,047 32

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