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B12220
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Essayes or rather, Encomions prayses of sadnesse: and of the emperour Iulian the Apostata. By Sir William Cornewallis, the younger knight.
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Cornwallis, William, Sir, d. 1631?
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1616
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STC 5778; ESTC S105079
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