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A54652 A caveat against covetousness occasioned by some scandalous and pernicious fruit of it, in one amongst us, whose heart went after it / written for admonition to others, by Charles Phelpes. Phelpes, Charles. 1668 (1668) Wing P1974; ESTC R13348 74,727 85

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