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              <text>Originally published in 1623 as "Country contentments, or the English huswife", which was an enlargement of book 2 of "Countrey contentments, in two bookes".&#13;
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Errata on prelim. p. [10]&#13;
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10 unnumbered pages, 68 pages, 61-188 pages : illustrations ; </text>
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