The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume VII. Cavalier and Puritan.
§ 7. Nathaniel Whiting; Albino and Bellama
Besides these, we have further, of the same kind, the Albino and Bellama (1637) of Nathaniel Whiting, a poem of more than four thousand lines in sixains, with strong inclination to the heroicomic, and with something of the greater clearness of tale-telling which the comic element often brings with it, but with a more vulgar tone than Kynaston’s;