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A mery Dia-
logue, declaringe the propertyes
of shrowde shrewes, and ho-
nest wyues, not onelie verie
pleasaunte, but also not a
lytle profitable: made
by ye famous clerke
D. Erasmus.
Roteroda-
mus.

Translated into
Englyshe.

Anno. M.CCCCC.
LVII.




Eulalia. God spede, & a thousand mine old