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John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake is likewise adapted from the French and first performed at The Queen's Theatre.[3][4]
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George Hickes' Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archæologicus vol. 2 (published in Oxford) includes the first published reference to Beowulf and the single surviving transcript of the
Finnesburg Fragment.