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love_n affection_n heart_n life_n 2,903 5 4.0762 3 false
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A09644 Vertues anatomie. Or A compendious description of that late right honorable, memorable, and renowned Bedfordshire lady, the Lady Cheany, of Tuddington. By Charles Pierse Pierse, Charles. 1618 (1618) STC 19909; ESTC S102573 34,544 80

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