Selected quad for the lemma: work_n
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A26535
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Æsop improved, or, Above three hundred and fifty fables, mostly Æsop's with their morals paraphrased in English verse : amounting to about one hundred and fifty more than do appear to have been so rendered by any other hand.
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Aesop.
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1673
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Wing A742; ESTC R17851
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