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D---n Molley H——ns for her Pride.
The Augustan Reprint Society
THE
MERRY-THOUGHT:
OR, THE
Glass-Window and Bog-House
Miscellany
Parts 2, 3, and 4
(1731-?)
Introduction by
MAXIMILLIAN E. NOVAK
Publication Number 221-222
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California, LosAngeles
1983
GENERAL EDITOR
David Stuart Rodes,University of California, Los Angeles
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Maximillian E. Novak,University of California, Los Angeles
Nancy M. Shea,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Thomas Wright,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
ADVISORY EDITORS
Ralph Cohen,University of Virginia
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