[5] The information on the dialogue in this paragraph is taken from Purpus, pp. 48-49.
[6] Purpus, pp. 50-52.
[7] Purpus, p. 48; Hugh Macdonald, "Banter in English Controversial Prose after the Restoration," Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association, XXXII (1946), 21-22.
[8] Macdonald, p. 23.
[9] One of L'Estrange's opponents nicknamed him the "Crack-fart of the Nation" and the epithet stuck to him for years.
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The text of Citt and Bumpkin here reprinted is the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
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