A16259
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Guystarde and Sygysmonde here foloweth the amerous hystory of Guystarde and Sygymonde and of theyr dolorous deth by her father / newly tra[n]slated out of Laten into Engyisshe by Wyllym Walter servuant to Syr Henry Marney ...
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Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Walter, William, fl. 1520.
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1532
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STC 3183.5; ESTC S206
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10,198
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34
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A77333
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Englands selected characters, describing the good and bad worthies of this age. VVhere the best may see their graces, and the worst discerne their basenesse. The particulars be these, 1 A worthy king. 2 An unworthy king. 3 A worthy queen. 4 An unworthy woman. 5 A worthy prince. 6 An unworthy prince. 7 A worthy Privy counsellour. 8. An unworthy Privy counsellour. 9 A worthy noble-man. 10 An unworthy noble-man. 11 A worthy bishop or minister. 12 An unworthy bishop or minister. 13 A worthy judge. 14 An unworthy judge. 15 A worthy knight & souldier. 16 An unworthy knight & souldier. 17 A worthy gentleman. 18 An unworthy gentleman. 19 A worthy lawyer. 20 An unworthy lawyer. 21 A worthy souldier. 22 An untrained souldier. 23 A worthy physitian. 24 An unworthy physitian 25 A Jesuit reprobated. 26 A cowardly Cavalier. 27 A bawd of the black guard. 28 A malignant knave a hatcher of plots.; Good and the badde. Selections
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Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
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1643
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Wing B4384; Thomason E55_18; ESTC R2558
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11,423
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16
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A59757
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S. Pauls confession of faith, or, A brief account of his religion in a sermon preach'd at St. Warbroughs Church in Dublin, March 22, 1684/5 / by William Lord Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh.
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Sheridan, William, 1636-1711.
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1685
(1685)
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Wing S3231; ESTC R32664
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19,031
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32
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A08592
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A wife novv the widdow of Sir Thomas Overburye Being a most exquisite and singular poem of the choice of a wife. Whereunto are added many witty characters, and conceited newes, written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen his friends.; Wife now a widowe
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Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.
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1614
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STC 18904; ESTC S120266
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28,037
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66
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A59332
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Pastor fido, or, The faithful shepherd a pastoral, as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre.
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Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.; Fanshawe, Richard, Sir, 1608-1666.; Guarini, Battista, 1538-1612. Pastor fido.
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1677
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Wing S2706; ESTC R17055
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40,219
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76
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A31143
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The Harmony of the muses, or, The gentlemans and ladies choisest recreation full of various, pure and transcendent wit : containing severall excellent poems, some fancies of love, some of disdain, and all the subjects incident to the passionate affections either of men or women / heretofore written by those unimitable masters of learning and invention, Dr. Joh. Donn, Dr. Hen. King, Dr. W. Stroad [et al].
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R. C.; Donne, John, 1572-1631.; King, Henry, 1592-1669.; Strode, William, 1600 or 1601-1645.
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1654
(1654)
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Wing C105; ESTC R9732
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41,392
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112
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A05590
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The gushing teares of godly sorrovv Containing the causes, conditions, and remedies of sinne, depending mainly upon contrition and confession. And they seconded, with sacred and comfortable passages, under the mourning cannopie of teares, and repentance. By William Lithgovv.
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Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?
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1640
(1640)
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STC 15709; ESTC S108580
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48,504
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102
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A02073
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Alcida Greenes metamorphosis, vvherein is discouered, a pleasant transformation of bodies into sundrie shapes, shewing that as vertues beautifie the mind, so vanities giue greater staines, than the perfection of any quality can rase out: the discourse confirmed with diuerse merry and delightfull histories; full of graue principles to content age, and sawsed with pleasant parlees, and witty answeres, to satisfie youth: profitable for both, and not offensiue to any. By R.G.
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Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.
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1617
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STC 12216; ESTC S105886
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48,526
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77
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A02129
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Mamillia A mirrour or looking-glasse for the ladies of Englande. Wherein is disciphered, howe gentlemen vnder the perfect substaunce of pure loue, are oft inueigled with the shadowe of lewde lust: and their firme faith, brought a sleepe by fading fancie: vntil with ioyned with wisedome, doth awake it by the helpe of reason. By Robert Greene graduate in Cambridge.; Mamillia. Part 1
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Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.
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1583
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STC 12269; ESTC S119748
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60,462
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82
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A33412
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Conversations written in French by Monsieur Clerombault ; and put into English by a person of honour.; Conversations. English
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Palluau, Philippe de Clérembault, comte de, 1606-1665.; Méré, Antoine Gombault, chevalier de, 1610-1684.; Person of honour.
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1672
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Wing C4642; ESTC R914
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61,828
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158
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A44628
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The six days adventure, or, The new Utopia a comedy as it is acted at his Royal Highness the Duke of York's theatre.
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Howard, Edward, fl. 1669.
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1671
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Wing H2974; ESTC R16302
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64,652
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106
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A07523
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The wisdome of Solomon paraphrased. Written by Thomas Middleton
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Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.
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1597
(1597)
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STC 17906; ESTC S110004
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68,372
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186
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A29178
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A minister's counsel to the youth of his parish when arriv'd to years of discretion : recommended to the societies in and about London / by Francis Bragge ...
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Bragge, Francis, 1664-1728.
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1699
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Wing B4199; ESTC R32860
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70,334
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248
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A08597
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Sir Thomas Ouerburie his wife with new elegies vpon his (now knowne) vntimely death : whereunto are annexed, new newes and characters / written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen.
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Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.
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1611
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STC 18909; ESTC S1598
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73,798
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259
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A19965
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Daphnis and Chloe excellently describing the vveight of affection, the simplicitie of loue, the purport of honest meaning, the resolution of men, and disposition of fate, finished in a pastorall, and interlaced with the praises of a most peerlesse preincesse, wonderfull in maiestie, and rare in perfection, celebrated within the same pastorall, and therefore termed by the name of the shepheards holidaie. by Angell Daye. Altior fortuna virtus.; Daphnis and Chloe. English
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Longus.; Day, Angel, fl. 1575-1595.; Amyot, Jacques, 1513-1593.
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1587
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STC 6400; ESTC S112592
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83,708
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118
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A16269
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Bel-vedére, or, The Garden of the muses
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Bodenham, John, fl. 1600.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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1600
(1600)
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STC 3189.5; ESTC S102718
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102,703
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266
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A28932
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The wise and ingenious companion, French and English, or, A collection of the wit of the illustrious persons, both ancient and modern containing their wise sayings, noble sentiments, witty repartees, jests and pleasant stories : calculated for the improvement and pleasure of the English and foreigners / by Mr. Boyer ...
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Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.
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1700
(1700)
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Wing B3918; ESTC R37125
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122,216
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252
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A69225
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Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death
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Donne, John, 1572-1631.
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1633
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STC 7045; ESTC S121864
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150,803
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413
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A37179
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Gondibert an heroick poem / written by Sir William D'Avenant.
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D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668.; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
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1651
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Wing D326; ESTC R15933
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153,208
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320
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A09539
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A petite pallace of Pettie his pleasure contaynyng many pretie hystories by him set foorth in comely colours, and most delightfully discoursed.
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Pettie, George, 1548-1589.; R. B., fl. 1576.
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1576
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STC 19819; ESTC S101441
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164,991
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236
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A07541
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A nights search· Discovering the nature and condition of all sorts of night-walkers; with their associates. As also, the life and death of many of them. Together with divers fearfull and strange accidents, occasioned by such ill livers. Digested into a poeme by Humphry Mill.; Nights search. Part 1.
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Mill, Humphrey, fl. 1646.
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1640
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STC 17921; ESTC S112683
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172,120
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346
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A81812
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The fulnesse and freenesse of Gods grace in Iesus Christ; declared in the point of election, by a middle way betweene Calvin and Arminius, and different from them both, in an uniforme body of divinitie. By Francis Duke.; Fulnesse and freenesse of Gods grace in Jesus Christ. Part 1.
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Duke, Francis.
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1642
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Wing D2501; Thomason E146_23; ESTC R22338
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174,028
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185
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A16255
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Amorous Fiammetta VVherein is sette downe a catologue [sic] of all an singuler passions of loue and iealosie, incident to an enamored yong gentlewoman, with a notable caueat for all women to eschewe deceitfull and wicked loue, by an apparant example of a Neapolitan lady, her approued & long miseries, and wyth many sounde dehortations from the same. First wrytten in Italian by Master Iohn Boccace, the learned Florentine, and poet laureat. And now done into English by B. Giouano del M. Temp. With notes in the margine, and with a table in the ende of the cheefest matters contayned in it.; Fiammetta. English
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Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Yong, Bartholomew, 1560-1621?
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1587
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STC 3179; ESTC S102851
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186,424
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264
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A19065
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Christian offices crystall glasse In three bookes. First written in Latine, by that famous and renowned Father, Saint Ambrose Bishop of Millane. Whereunto is added his conuiction of Symmachus the Gentile. A worke tending to the advancement of vertue, and of holinesse: and to shew how much the morality of the Gentiles, is exceeded by the doctrine of Christianity. Translated into English by Richard Humfrey ...; De officiis. English
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Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397.; Humfrey, Richard.
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1637
(1637)
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STC 548; ESTC S100171
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335,831
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469
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A47663
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The secret miracles of nature in four books : learnedly and moderately treating of generation, and the parts thereof, the soul, and its immortality, of plants and living creatures, of diseases, their symptoms and cures, and many other rarities ... : whereunto is added one book containing philosophical and prudential rules how man shall become excellent in all conditions, whether high or low, and lead his life with health of body and mind ... / written by that famous physitian, Levinus Lemnius.; De miraculis occultis naturae. English
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Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.
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1658
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Wing L1044; ESTC R8382
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466,452
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422
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A07662
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Honours academie. Or The famous pastorall, of the faire shepheardesse, Iulietta A worke admirable, and rare, sententious and graue: and no lesse profitable, then pleasant to pervse. VVherein are many notable discourses, as well philosophicall, as diuine: most part of the seuen liberall sciences, being comprebended [sic] therein: with diuers comicall, and tragicall histories, in prose, and verse, of all sorts. Done into English, by R.T. Gentleman.; Bergeries de Juliette. English
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Montreux, Nicolas de, b. ca. 1561.; Tofte, Robert, 1561-1620.
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1610
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STC 18053; ESTC S114999
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543,552
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396
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A12231
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The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight. Now since the first edition augmented and ended; Arcadia
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Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.; Sanford, Hugh, d. 1607.
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1593
(1593)
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STC 22540; ESTC S111872
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580,659
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488
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A68107
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Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out of which domesticall duties are raised. ... VIII. Duties of masters. By William Gouge.
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Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
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1622
(1622)
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STC 12119; ESTC S103290
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610,068
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716
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A25470
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The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
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Annesley, Samuel, 1620?-1696.
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1661
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Wing A3232; ESTC R29591
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639,601
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676
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B08803
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Several discourses concerning the actual Providence of God. Divided into three parts. The first, treating concerning the notion of it, establshing the doctrine of it, opening the principal acts of it, preservation and government of created beings. With the particular acts, by which it so preserveth and governeth them. The second, concerning the specialities of it, the unseachable things of it, and several observable things in its motions. The third, concerning the dysnoēta, or hard chapters of it, in which an attempt is made to solve several appearances of difficulty in the motions of Providence, and to vindicate the justice, wisdom, and holiness of God, with the reasonableness of his dealing in such motions. / By John Collinges ...
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Collinges, John, 1623-1690.
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1678
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Wing C5335; ESTC R233164
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689,844
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860
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A69777
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The intercourses of divine love betwixt Christ and his Church, or, The particular believing soul metaphorically expressed by Solomon in the first chapter of the Canticles, or song of songs : opened and applied in several sermons, upon that whole chapter : in which the excellencies of Christ, the yernings of his gospels towards believers, under various circumstances, the workings of their hearts towards, and in, communion with him, with many other gospel propositions of great import to souls, are handles / by John Collinges ...
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Collinges, John, 1623-1690.
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1683
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Wing C5324; ESTC R16693
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839,627
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984
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A09802
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The lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea ; translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amyot ... ; and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North.; Lives. English. 1579
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Plutarch.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Amyot, Jacques, 1513-1593.; Acciaiuoli, Donato, 1429-1478.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.
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1579
(1579)
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STC 20066; ESTC S1644
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2,087,933
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1,206
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A31383
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The holy court in five tomes, the first treating of motives which should excite men of qualitie to Christian perfection, the second of the prelate, souldier, states-man, and ladie, the third of maxims of Christianitie against prophanesse ..., the fourth containing the command of reason over the passions, the fifth now first published in English and much augemented according to the last edition of the authour containing the lives of the most famous and illustrious courtiers taken out of the Old and New Testament and other modern authours / written in French by Nicholas Caussin ; translated into English by Sr. T.H. and others.
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Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651.; T. H. (Thomas Hawkins), Sir, d. 1640.
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1650
(1650)
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Wing C1547; ESTC R27249
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2,279,942
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902
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A09800
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The philosophie, commonlie called, the morals vvritten by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. VVhereunto are annexed the summaries necessary to be read before every treatise; Moralia. English
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Plutarch.; Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637.
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1603
(1603)
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STC 20063; ESTC S115981
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2,366,913
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1,440
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A55363
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Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Vol. I wherein the sacred text is inserted, and various readings annex'd, together with parallel scriptures, the more difficult terms in each verse are explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, questions and doubts resolved, and the whole text opened / by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Matthew Poole.
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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.
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1683
(1683)
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Wing P2820; ESTC R39678
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6,571,344
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1,258
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