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A50671 The praise of York-shire ale wherein is enumerated several sorts of drinks : with a description of the humors of most sorts of drunckards : to which is added, a York-shire dialogue, in its pure natural dialect, as Meriton, George, 1634-1711. 1685 (1685) Wing M1809; ESTC R16279 31,876 132

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