The surprize: or, The gentleman turn'd apothecary. A tale. Written originally in French prose; afterwards translated into Latin; and from thence now versified in hudibrastics

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Villiers, Claude Deschamps, sieur de, 1600?-1681.

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The surprize: or, The gentleman turn'd apothecary. A tale. Written originally in French prose; afterwards translated into Latin; and from thence now versified in hudibrastics