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life_n believe_v know_v word_n 4,525 5 4.2540 3 false
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A81958 A letter from Sir Lewis Dyve: written out of France to a gentleman, a friend of his in London. Giving him an account of the manner of his escape out of the Kings Bench, and the reasons that moved him thereunto. Dyre, Lewis, Sir, 1599-1669. 1648 (1648) Wing D2978; Thomason E520_40; ESTC R206190 7,088 8

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