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- ↑ Jaswant Lal Mehta (1979). Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 289. ISBN 978-81-207-0617-0.
- ↑ Thomas Middleton; Gary Taylor; John Lavagnino (25 March 2010). Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. OUP Oxford. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-19-958053-8.
- ↑ Helen Ostovich; Mary V. Silcox; Graham Roebuck (2008). The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England. Associated University Presse. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-87413-954-9.
- ↑ Gaetana Marrone (2007). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J. Taylor & Francis. p. 1824. ISBN 978-1-57958-390-3.
- ↑ The Biographical Treasury. A dictionary of Universal Biography, etc. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green,&Longmans. 1838. p. 199.