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love_n affection_n heart_n see_v 3,500 5 3.2632 3 false
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A04368 The picture of patience. Or, a direction to perfection Most needfull and vsefull in these dangerous daies of sinne, and publike feares. Jeffray, William. 1629 (1629) STC 14483; ESTC S100758 29,169 97

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