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A00391 Here folowith a scorneful image or monstrus shape of a maruelous stra[n]ge fygure called, Sileni alcibiadis presentyng ye state [and] condicio[n] of this present world, [and] inespeciall of the spiritualite how farre they be from ye perfite trade and lyfe of Criste, wryte[n] in the laten tonge, by that famous clarke Erasmus, [and] lately translated in to Englyshe.; Adagia. Chil. III Cent. III. English Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. 1543 (1543) STC 10507; ESTC S120657 18,269 72

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