Sig. [A 8], verso, 1.18. "Alexander of Pherea." See Plutarch's oration "On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander," II, in Moralia (tr. F.C. Babbitt, Loeb Classical Library), IV, 424.
Sig. [b 1], recto, 1.1. "A Very Grave Historian." Polybius, Histories, IV, 20.
Sig. [b 1], verso 1.20. "Mr. Racine ... his last two pieces..." Esther (1689) and Athalie, 1691.
Sig. [b 2], recto, 11. 23-24. "Victorius." Pietro Vettori, Commentarii in Primum Librum Aristotelis de Arte Poetarum, Florentiae, 1560.
Ibid., 1.27. "Castelvetro." Ludovico Castelvetro, La Poetica d'Aristotele vulgarizzata et sposta, 1570. This view of Castelvetro, who was remarkable for his independence of Aristotle, was fairly common in France. La Mesnardière, for instance, was extremely hostile to him.
Sig. [b 2], verso, 1.13. "Mesnardière." Jules de La Mesnardière, La Poëtique, Paris, 1693.
Ibid., 1.20. "D'Aubignac." Aubignac (abbé Hédelin d'), La Pratique du Theatre, Paris, 1657. English translation, 1684.
Ibid., 1.26. "Father Bossu." Traité du Poëme Epique, Paris, 1675.
Sig. [b 3], recto, 1.22. "Corneille." "Discours de l'Utilité et des Parties du Poëme Dramatique," Oeuvres (ed. Ch. Marty-Laveaux), Paris, 1862, I, 16.
Sig. [b 4], verso, 1. 12. "Dionysius of Halicarnassus." See "Epistola ad Cn. Pompeio de Platone," Dionysii Halicarnassensis, Opera Omnia, Lipsiae, 1774-1777, VI, 750-752.