Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n
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A08134
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Newnams nightcrowe A bird that breedeth braules in many families and housholdes. Wherein is remembred that kindely and prouident regard which fathers ought to haue towards their sonnes. Together with a diciphring of the iniurious dealinges of some younger sorte of stepdames.
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Newnham, John.
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1590
(1590)
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STC 18498; ESTC S121837
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