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A loyal svbiects looking-glasse, or a good subiects direction : necessary and requisite for euery good Christian, liuing within any ciuill regiment or politique state, to view, behold, and examine himselfe in, that he may the better frame the course of his life, according to the true grounds of the duties of an honest and obedient subiect to his king, and to arme himself against all future syren songs, and alluring intisements of subtill, disloyall, dissembling, and vnnaturall conspirators, traitors, and rebels. Collected for the most part out of both olde and later writers, whose names are in the next page let downe. Wherevnto are brieflie added sixe special causes of vndutifull subiects disoyaltie. /

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Main Author:	Willymat, William, d. 1615
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	At London : Printed by G. Elde for Robert Boulton, and are to be sould at his shop at Chancerie lane end neere Holbourne, [1604].
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Title pages > England > 17th cent.
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