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love_n day_n heart_n life_n 3,086 5 4.0254 3 false
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B09186 A godly warning for all maidens by the example of Gods judgements shewed upon one German wife of Clifton in the county of Nottingham, who lying in child-bed, was born away and never heard of after. The tune is, The ladyes fall. 1670 (1670) Wing G938A; ESTC R233102 1,647 3

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