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- ↑ Christopher Hill, Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution (1965), p. 142-3.
- ↑ Dedication to George Chapman's The Shadow of Night (1594) in "Notices of Mathew Roydon", Egerton Brydges, ed., Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived (1815) p. 51.
- ↑ Martin Garrett, Sidney: The Critical Heritage (1996) p.105-6.
- ↑ The works of Thomas Nashe, ed. Ronald B. McKerrow, 5 vols, Oxford, 1958, vol. 3, p. 323.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Roydon, Matthew". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
