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- ↑ Samuel Peply's diary, Samuel Pepys, 2 March 1666, Project Gutenberg, accessed 12 September 2008
- ↑ George Saintsbury and Sir Walter Scott, eds., The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 2, Edinburgh, William Paterson, 1882; pp. 414–16 and ff.
- ↑ John Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, London, 1706; Montague Summers, ed., London, Fortune Press [no date]; reprinted New York, Benjamin Blom, 1968; p. 100.
- ↑ Downes, pp. 111–12.
