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A33571 Cocker's morals, or, The muses spring-garden adorned with many sententious disticks & poems in alphabetical order : fitted for the use of all publick and private grammar and writing schools, for the scholars of the first to turn into Latin, and for those of the other to transcribe into all their various and curious hands / by Edward Cocker. Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675. 1675 (1675) Wing C4843A; ESTC R29228 23,067 74

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