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 cleere conscience is a sure carde.
A clere conscience is a sure carde.
As lyke as one pease is to another.
Rocks, shelves, and sands and seas, farewell.
Fie! Who would dwell
In such a hell
As is a ship, which drunk does reel,
Taking salt healths from deck to keel?
Io, paeans let us sing,
To physic's and to poesy's king
Nothing is more hateful than love.
I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde.
Euphues (1580)
Cross-gartered swains, and dairy girls,
With faces smug, and round as pearls,
When Pan's shrill pipe begins to play,
With dancing wear out night and day.
O Love! has she done this to thee?
What shall, alas! become of me?
Children and fooles speake true.
O! for a bowl of fat Canary,
Rich Palermo, sparkling Sherry.
None is happy but a glutton.
Campaspe: Were women never to fair, men would be false.
Apelles: Were women never so false, men would be fond.
Campaspe: Were women never so fair, men would be false.
Apelles: Were women never so false, men would be fond.
Campaspe (1584)
Did not Jupiter transforme himselfe into the shape of Amphitrio to embrace Alcmæna; into the form of a swan to enjoy Leda; into a Bull to beguile Io; into a showre of gold to win Danae?
Euphues (1580)
Thou art an heyre to fayre lyving, that is nothing, if thou be disherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were it for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.