John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
John Lyly 1554?-1606 John Bartlett
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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? |
| Cupid and Campaspe. Act iii. Sc. 5. |
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| How at heaven’s gates she claps her wings, The morne not waking til she sings. 1 |
| Cupid and Campaspe. Act v. Sc. 1. |
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| Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly. 2 |
| Euphues, 1579 (Arber’s reprint), page 39. |
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| Though the Camomill, the more it is trodden and pressed downe the more it spreadeth. 3 |
| Euphues, 1579 (Arber’s reprint), page 46. |
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| The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. |
| Euphues, 1579 (Arber’s reprint), page 47. |
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| I cast before the Moone. 4 |
| Euphues, 1579 (Arber’s reprint), page 78. |
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| It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study. 5 |
| Euphues, 1579 (Arber’s reprint), page 80. |
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| The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; 6 many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. 7 |
| Euphues, 1579 (Arber’s reprint), page 81. |
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| He reckoneth without his Hostesse. 8 Love knoweth no lawes. |
| Euphues, 1579 (Arber’s reprint), page 84. |
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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? 9 |
| Euphues, 1579 (Arber’s reprint), page 93. |
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| Lette me stande to the maine chance. 10 |
| Euphues, 1579 (Arber’s reprint), page 104. |
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| I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde. 11 |
| Euphues, 1579 (Arber’s reprint), page 107. |
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| It is a world to see. 12 |
| Euphues, 1579 (Arber’s reprint), page 116. |
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| There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. 13 |
| Euphues and his Euphœbus, page 153. |
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| A clere conscience is a sure carde. 14 |
| Euphues, page 207. |
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| As lyke as one pease is to another. |
| Euphues, page 215. |
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| Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke. 15 |
| Euphues and his England, page 229. |
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| A comely olde man as busie as a bee. |
| Euphues and his England, page 252. |
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| Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate. |
| Euphues and his England, page 279. |
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| Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest. 16 |
| Euphues and his England, page 287. |
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| Your eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a Milstone, but cleane through the minde. |
| Euphues and his England, page 289. |
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| I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head. |
| Euphues and his England, page 308. |
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| A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne. 17 |
| Euphues and his England, page 314. |
| Note 1. Hark, hark! the lark at heaven’s gat sings, And Phœbus ’gins arise. William Shakespeare: Cymbeline, act ii. sc. 3. [back] |
| Note 2. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy. William Shakespeare: Hamlet, act i. sc. 3. [back] |
| Note 3. The camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows.—William Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV. act ii. sc. 4. [back] |
| Note 4. See Heywood, Quotation 25. [back] |
| Note 5. A brown study.—Jonathan Swift: Polite Conversation. [back] |
| Note 6. Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.—Plutarch: Of the Training of Children. Stillicidi casus lapidem cavat (Continual dropping wears away a stone). Lucretius: i. 314. [back] |
| Note 7. Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber’d oak. William Shakespeare: 3 Henry VI. act ii. sc. 1. [back] |
| Note 8. See Heywood, Quotation 37. [back] |
| Note 9. Jupiter himself was turned into a satyr, a shepherd, a bull, a swan, a golden shower, and what not for love.—Robert Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec ii. mem. i. subs. 1. [back] |
| Note 10. The main chance.—William Shakespeare: 1 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1. Samuel Butler: Hudibras, part ii. canto ii. John Dryden: Persius, satire vi. [back] |
| Note 11. See Heywood, Quotation 47. [back] |
| Note 12. ’T is a world to see.—William Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, act ii. sc. 1. [back] |
| Note 13. See Heywood, Quotation 102. [back] |
| Note 14. This is a sure card.—Thersytes, circa 1550. [back] |
| Note 15. To rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.—Breton: Court and Country, 1618 (reprint, page 182). Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.—James Hurdis: The Village Curate. [back] |
| Note 16. See Raleigh, Quotation 3. [back] |
| Note 17. The rose is fairest when ’t is budding new.—Sir Walter Scott: Lady of the Lake, canto iii. st. 1. [back] |