Selected Prose and Dramatic WorkJohn Lyly was the principal court dramatist of the 1580s and author of the period's best-selling prose work, Euphues. Three texts are included in this edition for both specialist and non-specialist readers: an extract from Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit; and the plays, Campaspe and Gallathea. |
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... heart in you willing to accomplish my request . Which , if I may obtain , assure yourself that Damon to his Pythias , Pylades to his Orestes , Titus to his Gysippus , Theseus to his Pyrothus , Scipio to his Laelius , 74 was never found ...
... heart in you willing to accomplish my request . Which , if I may obtain , assure yourself that Damon to his Pythias , Pylades to his Orestes , Titus to his Gysippus , Theseus to his Pyrothus , Scipio to his Laelius , 74 was never found ...
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... heart hath made so many yield . But you love ! Ah , grief ! But whom ? Campaspe ! Ah , shame ! A maid forsooth , unknown , unnoble , and who can tell whether immodest , 50 whose eyes are framed by art to enamour and whose heart was made ...
... heart hath made so many yield . But you love ! Ah , grief ! But whom ? Campaspe ! Ah , shame ! A maid forsooth , unknown , unnoble , and who can tell whether immodest , 50 whose eyes are framed by art to enamour and whose heart was made ...
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... heart I know not how affected ( or infected ) , my sleeps broken and full of dreams , my wakeness sad and full of sighs , myself in all things unlike myself . If this 55 be love , I would it had never been devised . Telusa . Thou hast ...
... heart I know not how affected ( or infected ) , my sleeps broken and full of dreams , my wakeness sad and full of sighs , myself in all things unlike myself . If this 55 be love , I would it had never been devised . Telusa . Thou hast ...
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ACTUS QUARTUS SCAENA affection Alchemist Alexander Anaxarchus Apelles Aristotle beasts beauty Blackfriars theatre body Campaspe canst cause chastity Clitus colour cometh command conceits court cunning Cupid daughter deceive delight desire Diana didst Diogenes dissemble dost thou doth Enter Eubulus Euphues euphuistic Eurota Exeunt Exit eyes face fair faithful fancy farewell father fear Ferardo fire folly fortune Gallathea gods gold Granichus hath heart Hebe Hephestion honour John Lyly Jupiter king ladies Larissa live lover Lucilla Lyly's maiden maketh Manes master mean Melebeus mind Naples nature Neptune never nymphs paint Parmenio perceive Peter Philautus Phillida philosopher Plato play Psyllus Quarto Rafe Ramia Robin SCAENA SECUNDA shadow shame sweet Sylvius Telusa thee thine thing thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wouldst thought thyself Timoclea Tyterus unto Venus virgin virtue wanton women words yield youth