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love_n life_n live_v love_v 12,614 5 6.7212 4 true
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A36322 The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extreams, defect, excess of sorrow for his dead to which is added, The mourners soliloquy / by Thomas Doolittle ... Doolittle, Thomas, 1632?-1707. 1693 (1693) Wing D1888; ESTC R17535 114,706 250

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