1. Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum, Philosophy in Poetry: A Study of Sir John Davies’s Poem Nosce Teipsum (1903; rpt. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969), 221–319, esp. 275.
2. George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, ed. Gladys Doidge Willcock and Alice Walker (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1936), 19.
3. Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, ed. Maurice Evans (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1977), 433–434.
4. Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus, The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, Volume II, ed. Fredson Bowers, 2nd edn. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981), 121–271, esp. 172.
5. Baldassare Castigione, The Courtier, trans. Charles Singleton (Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1959), 354.