SOURCES FOR THE GENTLEMAN USHER

Benivenius, Antonio. De Abditis Nonnulis Morborum Causis (1507).

(perhaps) Painter, William. The Palace of Pleasure (collection of tales, 1566-7). Tome 1, Novel 53.

(perhaps) Sidney, Philip. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590). Bk. 1, the story of Parthenia.

Tabouret, Estienne. 'Aopophtegmes du S. Gavlard, Gentilhomme de la Franche-Comté Bourguignotte.' Appended to some editions of Tabouret's Les Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords (1583).

REFERENCE : John Hazel Smith, ed. The Gentleman Usher. Regents Renaissance Drama. Lincon: University of Nebraska Press, 1970. xvi-xxxiii, 126-30.