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truth_n worthy_a young_a youth_n 14 3 7.3345 4 false
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B06762 A warning for married women: being an example of Mrs. Jane Reynolds ... who having pledged her troth to a seaman was afterwards married to a carpenter, and at last carried away by a spirit, the manner how shall be recited. To a west-country tune, call'd, The fair maid of Bristol: or, John True, &c. 1695-1700? (1700) Wing W922A; ESTC R186281 1,698 1

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