Sources
Tomkis borrowed and adapted his main plot from the classical myth of the Judgement of Paris; but particular features of his work depend upon more contemporaneous influences, including Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Du Bartas' La Sepmaine, and Sir John Davies's Nosce Teipsum.
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