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truth_n good_a great_a see_v 4,003 5 3.1544 3 true
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A66253 Preparation for death being a letter sent to a young gentlewoman in France, in a dangerous distemper of which she died. Wake, William, 1657-1737. 1687 (1687) Wing W253; ESTC R5512 22,586 170

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