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- ↑ William Shakespeare; Henry Norman Hudson (1871). The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions, with Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet by H. N. Hudson. Estes & Lauriat. p. 6. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ↑ Steggle, Matthew. "Garter, Bernard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10412.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ John Doherty (4 January 2012). The Ignorance Of Shakespeare. Strategic Book Publishing. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-61204-839-0 . Retrieved 27 June 2013.
