John Lyly Quotes
1550–1606 England
John Lyly (Lilly or Lylie) (c. 1553 – 1606) was an English writer, best known for his Euphues (1578).
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Also known as: Midas (Lyly play), Campaspe (play), Gallathea, Mother Bombie, Sapho and Phao
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A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.
Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
Fishe and gesse in three dayes are stale.
He reckoneth without his Hostesse. Love knoweth no lawes.
Euphues (1580)
For wenches, wine, and lusty cheer,
Jove would leap down to surfeit here.
Thou shall come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
It is better to poyson hir with the sweet bait of love.
Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke.
The measure of life is not length, but honestie.
Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
Euphues (1580)
Take heede, Camilla, that seeking al the Woode for a streight sticke, you chuse not at the last a crooked staffe.
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles.
That honourable estate of Matrimony, which was sanctified in Paradise, allowed of the Patriarches, hallowed of the olde Prophets, and commended of al persons.
Euphues (1580)
A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
What bird so sings, yet so does wail?
Oh, 'tis the ravished nightingale.
"Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu," she cries,
And still her woes at midnight rise.
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
Lette me stande to the maine chance.
Euphues (1580)