《容斋随笔·卷八·谈丛失实》
等到对西夏的战争结束，朝廷在枢密院和中书门下全都任用三公及莒国公宋库、英国公夏妹，这都是吕许公的二政敌。吕已经老了，朝廷大事还征求他的意见。
其一云： 吕许公恶韩、富、范三公，欲废之而不能，及西军罢，尽用三公及宋莒公、夏英公于二府，皆其仇也。
By the time the war against Xixia ended, the court had appointed all the Three Dukes, Song Ku, the Duke of Ju, and Xia Mei, the Duke of England, to the Privy Council and the Ministry of the Interior and Classics, all of whom were Lv Xugong's political enemies. Lv was already old, and the court still sought his advice on major matters.