397 ([return])
[ Sir Robert was the original hero of the Rehearsal, and was called Bilboa. In the remodelled Dunciad, Pope inserted the lines]

"And highborn Howard, more majestic sire, With Fool of Quality completes the quire.">[

Pope's highborn Howard was Edward Howard, the author of the British Princes.]

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398 ([return])
[ Key to the Rehearsal; Shadwell's Sullen Lovers; Pepys, May 5. 8. 1668; Evelyn, Feb. 16. 1684/5.]

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399 ([return])
[ Grey's Debates and Commons' Journals, June 4. and 11 1689.]

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400 ([return])
[ Lords' Journals, June 6. 1689.]

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