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A06684 A health to the gentlemanly profession of seruingmen; or, The seruingmans comforts With other thinges not impertinent to the premisses, as well pleasant as profitable to the courteous reader. Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, attributed name.; I. M., fl. 1598. 1598 (1598) STC 17140; ESTC S120831 45,157 78

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