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love_n child_n love_v wife_n 5,735 5 7.1980 4 true
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A42228 The mourner comforted an epistle consolatory / written by Hugo Grotius to Monsieur Du Maurier the French embassadour at the Hague ; translated on a sad occasion by C.B.; Epistola consolatoria ad Benjaminum Auberium Maurerium, Regis Christianissimi apud Foederatas Belgii Provincias legatum illustrissimum. English Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687. 1652 (1652) Wing G2114; ESTC R1086 13,310 35

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