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About John Lyly
John Lyly (Lilly or Lylie) (c. 1553 β 1606) was an English writer, best known for his Euphues (1579).
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βI cast before the Moone.β
βA clere conscience is a sure carde.β
βAs lyke as one pease is to another.β
βA comely olde man as busie as a bee.β
βFishe and gesse in three dayes are stale.β
βA Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.β
βThe finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.β
βGoe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke.β
βHe reckoneth without his Hostesse. Love knoweth no lawes.β
βI am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.β
βI mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde.β
βWhere the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.β
βIt seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.β
βThere can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.β
βRather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.β
βFor experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.β
βBe valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.β
βHow at heaven's gates she claps her wings,
The morne not waking til she sings.β
The morne not waking til she sings.β
βMaydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.β
βThough the Camomill, the more it is trodden and pressed downe the more it spreadeth.β
βYour eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a Milstone, but cleane through the minde.β
βIs it not true which Seneca reporteth, that as too much bending breaketh the bowe, so too much remission spoyleth the minde?β
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John Lyly on Love 4 quotes
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βThe foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head.β
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John Lyly on Sun 2 quotes
βThe sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.β
John Lyly on Bees
βAs busie as a Bee.β
John Lyly on Studying
βYou are in some brown study.β
John Lyly on Conscience
βA cleere conscience is a sure carde.β
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John Lyly on Apollo
βSing to Apollo, God of Day, Whose golden beames with morning play, And make her eyes so brightly shine, Auroraβs face is callβd Divine. Sing to Phoebus, and that Throne Of Diamonds which he sits upon. Io, PΓ¦ans let us sing, To Physickes and to Poesies King Crowne all his Altars with bright fire, Laurels bind about his Lire, A Daphnean Coronet for his Head, The Muses dance about his Bed; When on his ravishing Lute he playes, Strew his Temple round with Bayes. Io, PΓ¦ans let us sing, To the glittering Delian King.β
About John Lyly
John Lyly (Lilly or Lylie) (c. 1553 β 1606) was an English writer, best known for his Euphues (1579).