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A56191 A pleasant purge for a Roman Catholike to evacuate his evill humours consisting of a century of polemicall epigrams, wherein divers grosse errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered, censured, refuted, in a facetious yet serious manner / by William Prynne ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1642 (1642) Wing P4038; ESTC R5059 135,316 198

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