1. George Whetstone, An Heptameron of Civil! Discourses (London, 1582), sig. B4r.
2. Daniel Javitch, Poetry and Courtliness in Renaissance England (Princeton University Press, 1978), pp. 23–49.
3. Jill Kraye, ‘Moral philosophy’, in Charles B. Schmitt and Quentin Skinner, eds, The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1988), 303–86, here p. 303.
4. D. A. Russell, Plutarch (London: Duckworth, 1971), p. 164.
5. See Eric Josef Carlson, Marriage and the English Reformation (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994).