SOURCES FOR THE PICTURE

(perhaps) Adam of Cobsam. The Wright's Chaste Wife (MS. poem, wr. 1460).

Favyn, André. The Theatre of Honour and Knighthood. Trans. anon (1623).

Knolles, Richard. The General History of the Turks (1603).

Painter, William. The Palace of Pleasure (collection of tales, 1566-7). Tome 2, Novel 28.

Shakespeare, William. Cymbeline (perf. 1609).

(perhaps) Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene (1590). 5.5.

(perhaps) Whetstone, George. The Rock of Regard (collection of tales, 1576). 'The Arbour of Virtue.'

REFERENCE : Philip Edwards and Colin Gibson, eds. The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. 3.182-4.