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<titleStmt><title n="MscB1700"><title>Labour in vain: or, What signifies little or nothing [...]</title>
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<publicationStmt><p>Distributed as part of the Lampeter Corpus</publicationStmt>
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<idNo type="Lamp">T16/3631</idNo>
<date>1700</date>
<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
<pubFormat>quarto</pubFormat>
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<persName>Edward Ward</persName>
<birth><date>1667</date> Oxfordshire</birth>
<residence>Oxford; visited the West-Indies; London</residence>
<education>"little education" (DNB)</education>
<occupation>publisher; printer; author; tavern-keeper; humorist</occupation>
<socecstatus>freeman</socecstatus>
<socecstatuspat>"of low extraction" (DNB)</socecstatuspat>
<biogNote>attacks Whigs and low-church party</biogNote>
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<keywords scheme="lamTop"><term>social criticism</term><term> satire</term></keywords>
<keywords scheme="lamGen"><term>book</term></keywords>
<keywords scheme="lamStruc"><term>front (dialogue)</term><term> body</term></keywords>
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