John Lyly

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John Lylys Euphuistic Style

• I thought it too bad for the press and too good
  for the pack.
• Gentlemen use books as gentlewomen handle their
  flowrs, who in the morning stick them in their
  heads, and at night straw them at their heels.
• Cherries be fulsome when they be through ripe,
  bicause they be plenty, and books be stale when
  they be printed, in that they be common.
• In my mind printers and tailors are bound chiefly
  to pray for gentlemen the one hath so many
  fantasies to print, the other such divers
  fashions to make, that the pressing-iron of one
  is never out of the fire, nor the printing press
  of the other any time lieth still.
• But a fashion is but a days wearing, and a book
  but an hours reading, which seeing it is so, I
  am of a shoemakers mind, who careth not so the
  shoe hold the plucking on, nor I so my labors
  last the running over.
• He that cometh in print bicause he would be known
  is like the fool that cometh into the market
  bicause he would be seen.
• Envy braggeth but draweth no blood the malicious
  have more mind to quip than might to cut.
• I submit myself to the judgment of the wise, and
  I little esteem the censure of fools.
• The one will be satisfied with reason, the other
  are to be answered with silence.

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Copychanging Lyly

• Lyly I thought it too bad for the press and too
  good for the pack.
• Copychange I thought it too trite for the
  learned and too hard for the lazy.
• Lyly Gentlemen use books as gentlewomen handle
  their flowrs, who in the morning stick them in
  their heads, and at night straw them at their
  heels.
• Copychange Ambitious people treat morality as
  aerialists handle balloons, who inflate them to
  enjoy being able to ascend and empty them to
  avoid having to stay aloft.