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- ↑ Kenny, Arthur F. (1973). Rogues, Vagabonds, & Sturdy Beggars: A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature Exposing the Lives, Times, and Cozening Tricks of the Elizabethan Underworld. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 105. ISBN 9780870237188.
- ↑ Green, Jonathon (2015). The Vulgar Tongue: Green's History of Slang. Oxford University Press. p. 47. ISBN 9780199398140.
- 1 2 Dion, Craig; Mentz, Steve (2010). Rogues and Early Modern English Culture. University of Michigan Press. pp. 106–7. ISBN 9780472025169.
- ↑ Early English Text Society (1869). "Preface". Early English Text Society Extra Series. IX. London: N. Trubner &Co.: viii.
- ↑ "Facets of Froyle website articles on the Draper family" . Retrieved 27 February 2018.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Harman, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
