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• The Character of an ill-court-favourite representing the mischiefs that flow from ministers of state when they are more great than good ... / translated out of French. ([London?] : Printed for T. Davis ..., 1681) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth. (London : Printed for Matthew Gillyflower ..., 1694), by Monsieur de Refuge, Edward Walsingham, Francis Walsingham, and Robert Naunton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• State-worthies, or, The states-men and favourites of England since the reformation their prudence and policies, successes and miscarriages, advancements and falls, during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles I. (London : Printed by Thomas Milbourne for Samuel Speed ..., 1670), by David Lloyd (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The states-men and favourites of England since the reformation their prudence and policies, successes and miscarriages, advancements and falls; during the reigns of King Henry VIII. King Edward VI. Queen Mary. Queen Elizabeth King James. King Charles I. (London : Printed by J.C. for Samuel Speed, at the Rainbow neer the Inner Temple-gate in Fleet-street, 1665), by David Lloyd (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Archy's dream, sometimes iester to His Majestie, but exiled the court by Canterburies malice with a relation for whom an odd chaire stood voide in hell. ([S.l. : s.n.], 1641), by Archie Armstrong (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The fooles complaint to Gotham colledge, and resolution taken up by free subjects, in and about the city of London and VVestminster, of that society: in the behalfe of themselves, and the priviledges of their hospitall; with their requests, that [brace] Policy, Curiosity, Solicitude, [brace] may be judges. Study, the chiefe warden, Diligence, the atturney generall, and Fame, the beadle of the court. (London, : printed by Ridibundus, in this present yeare of wits and fancies, 1643) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners:: with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on a Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris dance., by Francis Douce (Gutenberg ebook)

• Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners:: with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on a Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris dance., by Francis Douce (Gutenberg ebook)

• Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.), by Joseph Grimaldi, ed. by Charles Dickens, illust. by George Cruikshank
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• The Cossacks of the Ukraine. (AMS Press, 1985), by Henry Krasinski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Last loves of Henri of Navarre (Hutchinson & co., 1925), by H. Noel Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• State-worthies: or, The statesmen and favourites of England from the reformation to the revolution ... (Printed for J. Robson, 1766), by David Lloyd and Charles Whitworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world's lure : fair women, their loves, their power, their fates (A.A. Knopf, 1927), by Alexander Gleichen-Russwurm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal favourites (J. Maxwell and Company, 1865), by Elizabeth Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal lovers and mistresses; the romance of crowned and uncrowned kings and queens of Europe (Greening, 1908), by A. S. Rappoport and Navarre Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kings' favourites (John Lane company, 1910), by Francis Lawrance Bickley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Gunstdamen und die Kinder der Liebe im Hause Habsburg : Eine galante Studie (Schlingman, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (A. Dupret, 1887), by A. Jacques Ballieu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Kurtisanen der Renaissance : eine monographie. (W. Borngrb̈er, 1914), by Alfred Semerau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Maitressenwirtschaft in Deutschland im 17. u. 18. Jahrhundert. Pracht-Ausg. mit 18 feinen Stahlstichen. (P. Moser, 1874), by Theodor Griesinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die maitressenwirtschaft in Frankreich unter Ludwig XIV. & XV. Pracht-ausgabe : mit 18 feinen stahlstichen (P. Moser, 1874), by Theodor Griesinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• France ruinee par les favoris. (s.n., 1649) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Last loves of Henri of Navarre (Dingwall-Rock, ltd., 1925), by H. Noel Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sejanus, seu, De praepotentibus regum ac principum ministris, commonefactio. English (London : Printed by Richard Bishop, 1648), by Georgius Acacius Ennenckel and Thomas Nash (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Traicté de la cour. English (London : Printed for Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at his shop at the George in Fleetstreet, neere Cliffords-Inne, 1658), by Eustache de Refuge and gent W. H. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Pleasant battle between two lap dogs of the Utopian court, or, A Dialogue between asleep and awake, jest and earnest, reality and fancy being fought upon the new erected dog-pit lately contrived purposely upon this occasion as aforesaid in the anti-chamber of the said court ... (London : Printed for R.B., 1681) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Traicté de la cour. Part 2. English (London : Printed for James Yong, and are to be sold by John Williams..., 1652), by Eustache de Refuge, Francis Walsingham, and Edward Walsingham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Traicté de la cour. Part 2. English (London : Printed for Thomas Dring ..., 1660), by Eustache de Refuge, H. W., Francis Walsingham, and Edward Walsingham (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• With Essex in Ireland: Being Extracts From a Diary Kept in Ireland During the Year 1599 by Mr. Henry Harvey, Sometime Secretary to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1890), by Emily Lawless (multiple formats at archive.org)
• With Essex in Ireland: Being Extracts From a Diary Kept in Ireland During the Year 1599 by Mr. Henry Harvey, Sometime Secretary to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (New York: J. W. Lovell Co., 1890), by Emily Lawless (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les favorites des rois de France : depuis Agnès Sorel, d'après les sources les plus authentiques (Chez Jehenne, 1826), by Agricol Hippolyte de Lapierre de Châteauneuf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le portrait de la duchesse de Fontanges du Musée national de Madrid et les faux portraits de la favorite (Librairie G. Rapilly, 1900), by Victor Advielle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liste des empereurs et des rois qui ont perdu la vie en leur royaume, par la malice de leurs favoris et de leurs ministres d'etat. (Chez la vefue André Mvsnier ..., 1649) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Predication d'etat faite devant toute la cour : savoir si un souverain, peut selon Dieu faire des favoris, et quels favoris il peut faire. ([s.n.], 1649) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Questions en forme de dialogue : du conseil de conscience, au conseil d'etat : avec les responses. (Chez François Noel ..., 1649) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Povrtraict des favoris : en vers bvrlesqves. (s.n.], 1649) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The favourite : a political epistle humbly addressed to all monarchs, favourites, and ministers in the known world (Printed for J. Burd, 1762), by Antient Briton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoire de la cour d'Espagne. English (London : Printed for H. Rhodes ... and I. Harris ..., 1693), by Madame d' Aulnoy and J. P. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and Their Follies (London: E. Stock, 1888), by W. A. Clouston
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• Fools and Jesters, With a Reprint of Robert Armin's Nest of Ninnies, 1608, With an Introduction and Notes (London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1842), by Robert Armin, ed. by John Payne Collier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Der Weise Narr in der Englischen Literatur von Erasmus bis Shakespeare ... (Mayer & Müller, G.m.b.H., 1928), by Walter Gaedick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die hof- und volksnarren, sammt den närrischen lustbarkeiten der verschiedenen stände aller völker und zeiten. (J. Scheible, 1861), by Friedrich Nick and Karl Friedrich Flögel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of court fools. (R. Bentley, 1858), by Dr. Doran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in the development of the fool in the Elizabethan drama. (H. Milford, 1923), by Olive Mary Busby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die lustige person im älteren englischen drama (bis 1642). (Mayer & Müller, 1902), by Eduard Eckhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bobos na côrte, obra póstuma (Portugália editora, 1923), by Antonio Maria José de Mello Silva Cesar e Menezes Sabugosa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fool; his social and literary history (Doubleday, 1961), by Enid Welsford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fool; his social and literary history (Farrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935), by Enid Welsford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of noodles : stories of simpletons; or, Fools and their follies. (E. Stock, 1903), by W. A. Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of noodles: stories of simpletons; or, Fools and their follies. (E. Stock, 1992), by W. A. Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The marvellous adventures and rare conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass Newly collected, chronicled and set forth, in our English tongue (Trübner, 1860), by Alfred Henry Forrester and Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der hofnarren. (D. Siegert, 1789), by Karl Friedrich Flögel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Récreations historiques, critiques, morales, et d'érudition : avec l'histoire des fous en titre d'office ([publisher not identified], 1768), by M. Dreux du Radier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les deux fous : Histoire du temps de François Ier (1524) : précédée d'un essai historique sur les fous des rois de France (Delloye et Lecou, 1837), by P. L. Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein Schock Phantastn in einem Kasten : mit ihrem Pourtrait gar net in Kupffer gebracht und ausgelacht, samt einer Vorred. (Zu finden bey Johann Christoph Weigel in Nürnberg, 1700), by Johann Christoph Weigel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les bouffons (Hachette et cie., 1882), by A. Gazeau and P. Sellier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der ursprung des harlekin. Inaugural-dissertation, Strassburg. (Chemnitz, 1903), by Otto Driesen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fous et bouffons; étude physiologique, psychologique et historique. (Baillière, 1885), by Paul Moreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iurodstvo o Khriste i Khrista radi iurodivye vostochnoi i russkoi tserkvi; istoricheskii ocherk i zhitiia sikh podvizhnikov blagochestiia. (Izd. A.D. Stupina, 1902), by Ioann Kovalevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fous et bouffons; étude physiologique, psychologique et historique. (Baillière, 1888), by Paul Moreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Los bufones. (D. Cortezo, 1885), by A. Gazeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Hofnarren (G. Olms, 1977), by Karl Friedrich Flögel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die lustige person im älteren englischen drama (bis 1642). (Mayer & Müller, 1902), by Eduard Eckhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Europe : ancient, modern, social, religious, political, military (F.A. Niccolls, 1880), by Dr. Doran (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of court fools (F. A. Niccolls, 1900), by John Doran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bobos na côrte : obra posthuma (Lisboa : Portugalia, 1923., 1923), by António Maria José de Melo César e Meneses Sabugosa and Aires de Ornelas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The History of Court Fools, by Dr. Doran (Gutenberg ebook)
• Schlupps, der Handwerksbursch; Mären und Schnurren (in German), by Clara Berg (Gutenberg ebook)

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