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A12957 Essayes and characters, ironicall, and instructiue The second impression. With a new satyre in defence of common law and lawyers: mixt with reproofe against their common enemy. With many new characters, & diuers other things added; & euery thing ammended. By Iohn Stephens the yonger, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent.; Satyrical essayes characters and others Stephens, John, fl. 1613-1615. 1615 (1615) STC 23250; ESTC S117830 122,073 444

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