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virtue_n good_a life_n world_n 2,700 5 4.4219 3 true
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B01481 Advice to batchelors, or, A caution to be careful in their choice. As also, the deserved praise of a careful industrious wife. If thou wilt change a single life, to live free from annoy, chuse then a kind and careful wife, she'll crown thy days with joy. To the tune of, A touch of the times. Or, The country farmer. This may be printed. R.P. 1685-1688? (1688) Wing A644; Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[1]; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[6] 1,387 1

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