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A65616 The wheel of fortune: or, Nothing for a penny Being remarks on the dawing [sic] the penny-lottery, at the Theatre-Royal, in Dorset-Garden, with the characters of some of the honourable trustees, and all due acknowledgments paid to his honour the undertaker. Written by a person who was cursed mad he had not the thousand pound lot. 1698 (1698) Wing W1597C; ESTC R221991 3,173 13

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