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| Title | The royal marriage, king Lemuel's lesson [Proverbs, ch. 31] practically paraphras'd |
| Author | Oswald Dykes |
| Published | 1722 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 Mar 2007 |
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