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A06147 A brief discourse of the most renowned actes and right valiant conquests of those puisant princes, called the nine worthies wherein is declared their seuerall proportions and dispositions, and what armes euerie one gaue, as also in what time ech of them liued, and how at the length they ended their liues. Compiled by Richard Lloyd gentleman. Lloyd, Richard, gentleman. 1584 (1584) STC 16634; ESTC S119668 23,584 52

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