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A34736 The counters discourse, with it's varlets discovery being a merry dialogue betwixt three cunning rookes, viz. Tenterhooke the serjeant, Catchall the yeomen, and Spy all their setter. 1641 (1641) Wing C6524; ESTC R15947 6,389 13

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