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A12821 Staffords Niobe: or His age of teares A treatise no lesse profitable, and comfortable, then the times damnable. Wherein deaths visard is pulled off, and her face discouered not to be so fearefull as the vulgar makes it: and withall it is shewed that death is only bad to the bad, good to the good. Stafford, Anthony. 1611 (1611) STC 23129; ESTC S106303 42,293 224

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