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truth_n know_v see_v true_a 4,758 5 4.6437 4 true
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A87724 Innocui Sales. A collection of new epigrams Vol. I. With a præfatory essay on epigrammatic poetry. Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700. 1694 (1694) Wing K443B; ESTC R226027 31,843 136

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