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A61197 The royal and happy poverty or, a meditation on the felicities of an innocent and happy poverty: grounded on the fifth of Matthew, the third verse. And addressed to the late and present sufferers of the times. Sprigg, William, fl. 1657. 1660 (1660) Wing S5081; ESTC R221805 40,412 115

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