1 Thomas More, Utopia, trans. Ralph Robinson (1556), in Three Early Modern Utopias, ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 123.

² Acts 4:34–5, KJV.

³ There is a ‘Fifth Book’, but many scholars, including this one, doubt that much, if any, of it was written by Rabelais.

⁴ Sir Thomas Smith, De Republica Anglorum: A Discourse on the Commonwealth of England, ed. L. Alston (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1906), 142.

⁵ Thomas Lupton, Siuqila, Too Good To Be True (London, 1580), 38.

⁶ Utopia, trans. Robinson, 146.