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A19626 A vvedding-ring, fitted to the finger of euery paire that haue or shall meete in the feare of God: or, That diuine circle of heauenly loue, wherein man and wife should walke all their dayes The posie whereof is an expression of a good husbands kindnesse toward his vertuous wife, with her retaliacion of like affection. Crompton, William, 1599?-1642. 1632 (1632) STC 6061; ESTC S121236 18,860 44

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