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(perhaps) Geoffrey of Monmouth. Historia Regum Brittaniae (MS., wr. C12).

Harsnett, Samuel. Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures, A (1603).

Higgins, John. The Mirror for Magistrates (1574).

Holinshed, Raphael. The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577). 1587 edtn.

King Leir (anon. play, perf. 1590).

(perhaps) Lodge, Thomas. The Famous, True and Historical Life of Robert, Second Duke of Normandy, Surnamed Robert the Devil (1591).

Sidney, Philip. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590). Bk. 2, Ch. 10.

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene (1590). 2.10.

REFERENCE : R.A. Foakes, ed. King Lear. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Thomson, 1997, pp. 92-110.