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Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

Joseph Hall

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Joseph Hall
Age: 82 †
Born: 1574
Born: July 1
Died: 1656
Died: September 8
Clergyman
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Priest
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Leicestershire
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