Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n
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A04800
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Strange nevves out of Kent of a monstrous and misshapen child, borne in Olde Sandwitch, vpon the 10. of Iulie, last, the like (for strangenes) hath neuer beene seene.
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1609
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STC 14934; ESTC S120015
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