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Excerpt from A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne: Quickened With Metricall Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine, and Disposed Into Lotteries, That Instruction and Good Counsell, May Bee Furthered by an Honest and Pleasant Recreation
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne: Quickened With Metricall Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine, and Disposed Into Lotteries, That Instruction and Good Counsell, May Bee Furthered by an Honest and Pleasant Recreation
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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