John Lyly
John Lyly
John Lylywas an English writer, poet, dramatist, playwright, and politician, best known for his books Euphues: The Anatomy of Witand Euphues and His England. Lyly's mannered literary style, originating in his first books, is known as euphuism...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth3 April 1908
gates lark none till waking
None but the lark so shrill and clear; / How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, / The morn not waking till she sings.
might shall
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
best deadliest deepest doth english-writer love sharpest
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
cards played
Cupid and my Campaspe played / At cards for kisses, Cupid paid.
brown seems
It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.
men bees
A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
fishing caught fishes
All fish are not caught with flies
kindness bees kindred
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
heaven matrimony made
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
blessing sun
Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
teaching young
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
wine profit neat
Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.
heart writing thinking
If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.
doors mouths lips
Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.