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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... hope Philautus will not be my foe , seeing I have chosen his dear friend , neither you , father , be displeased in that Philautus is displaced . You need not muse that I should so suddenly be entangled ; love gives no reason of choice ...
... hope Philautus will not be my foe , seeing I have chosen his dear friend , neither you , father , be displeased in that Philautus is displaced . You need not muse that I should so suddenly be entangled ; love gives no reason of choice ...
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... hope hereafter never to see you , the other giveth me a greater occasion to abhor you . ' Euphues , being nipped on the head , 213 with a pale coun- tenance , as though his soul had forsaken his body , replied as fol- loweth : ' If this ...
... hope hereafter never to see you , the other giveth me a greater occasion to abhor you . ' Euphues , being nipped on the head , 213 with a pale coun- tenance , as though his soul had forsaken his body , replied as fol- loweth : ' If this ...
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... hope in the ears where our tra- vails be lodged , no carping shall harbour in those tongues . Our exercises must be as your judgement is , resembling 5 water , which is always of the same colour into what it run- neth . In the Trojan ...
... hope in the ears where our tra- vails be lodged , no carping shall harbour in those tongues . Our exercises must be as your judgement is , resembling 5 water , which is always of the same colour into what it run- neth . In the Trojan ...
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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