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The nobleman's generous kindness: or, the poor country man's unexpected happiness. : Giving an account of a nobleman, who taking notice of a poor man's industrious care and pains for the maintaining of his charge of seven small children, met him upon a day, and discoursing with him, invited him and his wife, with his children, home to his house, and bestowed upon them a farm of thirty acres of land, to be continued to him and his heirs for ever. To the tune of, The two English traveller [sic].

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Language:	English
Published:	Newcastle : Printed and sold by Robert Marchbank, [1720?]
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Charity > Poetry > Early works to 1800. Ballads, English > 18th century. Broadsides > England > 18th century.
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