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1876, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “BUNYAN, John”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica [] [1], Ninth edition, Volume IV, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 526, column 2:
The worst that can be laid to the charge of this poor youth, whom it has been the fashion to represent as the most desperate of reprobates, as a village Rochester, is, that he had a great liking for some diversions, quite harmless in themselves, but condemned by the rigid precisians among whom he lived, and for whose opinion he had a great respect.