English Reprints. JOHN LYLY MA. EUPHUES. THE ANATOMY OF WIT. Editio princeps. 1579. EUPHUES AND HIS ENGLAND. COLLATED WITH EARLY SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS. 'Eloquent and wittie Iohn Lilly!' F. MERES. Palladis Tamia. 1598. CAREFULLY EDITED BY EDWARD ARBER, Affociate, King's College, London, F.R.G.S., &c. LONDON: ALEX. MURRAY & SON, 30, QUEEN SQUARE, W.C. 1 October, 1868. Ent. Stat. Hall.] [All Rights refer ved. CHRONICLE of the Life, Works, and Times of John Lyly 33 A cooling Card for Philautus and all fond lovers That the child should be true born, no bastard 128 160 178 178 Euphues to Philautus, touching the death of Lucilla Euphues to Botonio, to take his exile patiently Euphues to a young gentleman named Alcius, &c. [The principal Characters prefent in the action]. 1. The Epiftle Dedicatory [to the Earl of Oxford]. 2. To the Ladies and Gentlewomen of England [Theftory of Caffander the hermit, & Callimachus] 227 The story of Fidus, and of his love to Lady Iffida] 252 At Oxford. Childhood. of fome of the principal events in the LIFE, WORKS, and TIMES 1553. of JOHN LYLY, M. A., * Probable or approximate dates. July 6. Mary succeeds to the crown. *1553 or*1554. JOHN LYLY born. 'Touching whose [Mary's] life, I can say little because I was scarce borne.' p. 451. 1560. Jan. 12. 1569. æt. 16. 1571. Oct. 8. æt. 18. 1558. Nob. 17. Elizabeth begins to reign. Sir Thomas Benger appointed Master of the Revels.Collier. Hist. Dram. Poetry, i. 172. John Lylie or Lylly, a Kentish man born, became a student in Magd. coll. [which house was seldom or never without a Lilye (understand me not that it bears three lilyes for its arms) from the first foundation thereof to the latter end of queen Elizabeth. Wood i. 302] in the beginning of 1509, aged 16, or thereabouts, and was afterwards, as I conceive, either one of the demies or clerks of that house.-A. d-Wood Ath. Oxon i. 676. Ed. 1813. John Lilly, born in the Weald of Kent in 1553 or 1554, became a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1569, but was not matriculated till 8 Oct. 1571, when he was entered as plebii filius.-Cooper. Ath. Cantab. ii. 525. Ed. 1861. [The Rev. Dr. Bloxam, formerly of Magdalen college, and who has made its history his especial study, informs me "Wood was probably right when he supposes Lylly to have entered college in 1569 for, as 1571 was the first year of matriculation and all the members of the college, old and young were matriculated together,-the matriculation would not fix the date of entrance. Lylly might have been a poor Scholar but there is no reason to suppose that he was either a Demy or Clerk."] Wood reports, apparently in part copying from Blount, see p. 17, that Lyly was "always averse to the crabbed studies of logic and philosophy. For so it was that his genie being naturally bent to the pleasant paths of poetry, (as if Apollo had given to him a wreath of his own bays, without snatching or struggling,) did in a manner neglect academical studies, yet not so much but that he took the degrees in arts, that of master being compleated 1575. At which time, as he was esteemed at the university a noted wit so afterwards was in the court of Q. Elizabeth, where he was also reputed a rare poet, witty, comical, and facetious."-Ath. Oxon i. 276. 1573. Apr. 27. 'John Lilye of Magd. coll.' takes his B.A.-Wood. Fasti æt. 20. Oxon. Ed. 1815. 1574. May 16. Lyly writes a Latin letter to Lord Burghley, which is now æt. 21. in the British Museum, Lansdowne MS. 19, Art. 16. It is beautifully written on pencilled lines. On the back it is thus endorsed. "16. May 1574 John Lilie, a scholar of Oxford, an epistle For ye Queens letters to Magdalen College to admit him fellow." The letter is reprinted in Mr. Fairholt's Dramatick works of John Lilly.î.xii. Ed. holt's Dramatick |