Selected quad for the lemma: rest_n
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B01789
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Verses, presented to his masters in the ward of St. Giles's Cripplegate, within the Freedom. / By William Briscoe, bell-man.
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Briscoe, William.
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1667
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Wing B4760; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[226]
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