Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n
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A27299
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The lives of sundry notorious villains, memorable for their base and abominable actions together with a novel as it really happened at Roan in France.
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Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.
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1678
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Wing B1739; ESTC R18177
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