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Vox piscis : or, the book-fish contayning three treatises which 

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[ With no claim to admission, beyond the slender one furnished 

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[ Printed for private circulation. At p. 9. the writer observes : 

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 half-a-dozen hair-hooks, shotted for immediate use... and should he 

 be blessed with a pretty and cheerful wife, who could sacredly be 

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