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The City Nightcap
''The City Nightcap, or Crede Quod Habes, et Habes'' is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Robert Davenport.〔A. H. Bullen, ed., ''The Works of Robert Davenport'', Old English Plays, News Series, London, 1890; reprinted New York, Benjamin Blom, 1968.〕〔Willis J. Monie, ed., ''A Critical Edition of Robert Davenport's The City Nightcap'', New York, Garland, 1979.〕 It is one of only three dramatic works by Davenport that survive.
==Date==
The play was licensed for performance by Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, on 24 October 1624. Many commentators have assumed that the play was written not long before that date. The play's "heavy borrowing" from Shakespeare seems to suggest that it must have been written after the 1623 publication of the First Folio.〔W. J. Olive, "Davenport's Debt to Shakespeare in ''The City Nightcap''," ''Journal of English and Germanic Philology'', Vol. 49 (1950), pp. 333–44.〕
The question of the play's date is complicated by one internal factor: in Act III, scene 3, Dorothea states that when her maid put "a little saffron in her starch," she "most unmercifully broke her head." This is a reference to the fashion for yellow-dyed ruffs and cuffs that was current c. 1615, and was closely associated with Mistress Anne Turner and her execution for her role in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury (15 November 1615). Allusions to "yellow bands" and "yellow starch" are common in plays written in the 1615–18 period, but somewhat dated in a play from the early 1620s. (Davenport's ''A New Trick to Cheat the Devil'', another play of uncertain date, also includes a yellow-starch reference.)
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