Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n
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A00799
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[3 dialogues in verse, between Gelasimus and Spudaeus, Eda and Agna, and Wisdom and Wyll]
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Fisher, John, student in Oxford.
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STC 10917; ESTC S112327
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