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References
- ↑ English Short Title Catalogue. "Wade, John" . Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ↑ EBBA. "Tis Money makes a Man: Or The Good-Fellows Folly". English Broadside Ballad Archive. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary. "Good Fellow, definition number 3". OED.com. Retrieved 8 September 2014.