A compendious or briefe examination of certayne ordinary complaints of diuers of our countrymen in these our dayes  which although they are in some Parte vnjust and friuolous, yet are they all, by way of dialogue, throughly debated and discussed by William Shakespeare, gentleman.

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A compendious or briefe examination of certayne ordinary complaints of diuers of our countrymen in these our dayes which although they are in some Parte vnjust and friuolous, yet are they all, by way of dialogue, throughly debated and discussed by William Shakespeare, gentleman.