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A08918 An extracte of examples, apothegmes, and histories collected out of Lycosthenes, Brusonius and others ; translated into Englishe, and reduced into an alphabeticall order of common places, by A.P. Parinchef, John. 1572 (1572) STC 19196; ESTC S113993 85,726 246

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