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truth_n know_v see_v world_n 4,606 5 4.6472 4 true
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A86166 Clarastella together with poems occasional, elegies, epigrams, satyrs. / By Robert Heath, Esquire. Heath, Robert, fl. 1636-1659. 1650 (1650) Wing H1340A; Thomason E1364_1; ESTC R202387 74,802 191

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