SOURCES FOR THE CITY NIGHTCAP

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decamerone (collection of tales, 1471). 7.7. Prob. read in Eng. trans., pr. 1620.

Greene, Robert. Philomela: The Lady Fitzwater's Nightingale (1592).

REFERENCE : Willis J. Monie, ed. A Critical Edition of Robert Davenport's 'The City Nightcap'. New York: Garland, 1979. xv-xix.