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A43491 Advice to a daughter in opposition to the Advice to a sonne, or, Directions for your better conduct through the various and most important encounters of this life ... / by Eugenius Theodidactus. Heydon, John, b. 1629. 1658 (1658) Wing H1664; ESTC R9980 68,213 214

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