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A19641 Vertues common-vvealth: or The high-way to honour Wherin is discouered, that although by the disguised craft of this age, vice and hypocrisie may be concealed: yet by tyme (the triall of truth) it is most plainly reuealed. ... By Henry Crosse. Crosse, Henry. 1603 (1603) STC 6070.5; ESTC S105137 93,354 158

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