The six dramas by Day which we possess show a delicate fancy and dainty inventiveness all his own. He preserved, in a great measure, the dramatic tradition of John Lyly, and affected a kind of subdued euphuism. Without ever wholly abandoning these characteristics, Day's comedy also reveals some influence of early Jacobean satirists such as John Marston, who like Day wrote for the children's companies. "The Maid's Metamorphosis" (1600), once supposed to be a posthumous work of Lyly's, may be an early work of Day's. It possesses, at all events, many of his marked characteristics. His prose "Peregrinatio Scholastica or Learninges Pilgrimage", dating from his later years, was printed by A. H. Bullen from a manuscript of Day's. Considerations partly based on this work have suggested that he had a share in the anonymous "The Pilgrimage to Parnassus" and the "Return from Parnassus". The beauty and ingenuity of "The Parliament of Bees" were noted and warmly extolled by Charles Lamb; and Day's work has since found many admirers.