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A10700 The excellency of good women The honour and estimation that belongeth vnto them. The infallible markes whereby to know them. By Barnabe Rych souldier seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie. Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617. 1613 (1613) STC 20982; ESTC S115902 20,574 42

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