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"Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses: Cupid paid. He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows: Loses them too. Then down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple on his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes: She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?"
John Lyly / Cupid and Campaspe. Act iii. Sc. 5.
Cupid and Campaspe. Act iii. Sc. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morne not waking til she sings."
John Lyly / Cupid and Campaspe. Act v. Sc. 1.
Cupid and Campaspe. Act v. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly."
John Lyly / Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 39.
Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 39.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Though the Camomill, the more it is trodden and pressed downe the more it spreadeth."
John Lyly / Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 46.
Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 46.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone."
John Lyly / Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 47.
Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 47.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"I cast before the Moone."
John Lyly / Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 78.
Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 78.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study."
John Lyly / Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 80.
Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 80.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks."
John Lyly / Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 81.
Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 81.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He reckoneth without his Hostesse. Love knoweth no lawes."
John Lyly / Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 84.
Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 84.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"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?"
John Lyly / Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 93.
Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 93.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Lette me stande to the maine chance."
John Lyly / Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 104.
Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 104.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde."
John Lyly / Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 107.
Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 107.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"It is a world to see."
John Lyly / Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 116.
Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 116.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire."
John Lyly / Euphues and his Euphoebus, page 153.
Euphues and his Euphoebus, page 153.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A clere conscience is a sure carde."
John Lyly / Euphues, page 207.
Euphues, page 207.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"As lyke as one pease is to another."
John Lyly / Euphues, page 215.
Euphues, page 215.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke."
John Lyly / Euphues and his England, page 229.
Euphues and his England, page 229.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A comely olde man as busie as a bee."
John Lyly / Euphues and his England, page 252.
Euphues and his England, page 252.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate."
John Lyly / Euphues and his England, page 279.
Euphues and his England, page 279.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest."
John Lyly / Euphues and his England, page 287.
Euphues and his England, page 287.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Your eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a Milstone, but cleane through the minde."
John Lyly / Euphues and his England, page 289.
Euphues and his England, page 289.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head."
John Lyly / Euphues and his England, page 308.
Euphues and his England, page 308.
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"A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne."
John Lyly / Euphues and his England, page 314.
Euphues and his England, page 314.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain