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heart_n bring_v good_a treasure_n 13,062 5 10.6433 5 true
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A70654 Threnodia, the churches lamentation for the good man his losse delivered in a sermon to the Right Honourable the two Houses of Parliament and the reverend Assembly of Divines at the funerall of that excellent man John Pym, Esquire, late a Member of the Honourable House of Commons : preached in the Abbey-Church of Westminster / by Stephen Marshall ... Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655. 1644 (1644) Wing M794; ESTC R17869 27,959 53

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