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The complete works of John Lyly

now for the first time collected and edited from the earliest quartos with life, bibliography, essays, notes and index by R. Warwick Bond

Lyly, John (1554?-1606)

VOL. I

III.

VOL. III

CERTAINE ENGLISHE Verses, presented vnto the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, by a Courtier: In ioy of the most happie disclosing, of the most dangerous conspiracies pretended by the late executed Traitours, against her royall person, and the whole Estate.

POEMS

I. Early Autobiographical: 1575–1580?

II.

II. Early Love-Poems: BEFORE 1580?

III.

III. Four Songs

IV.

IV. Later Love-Poems.

V. Later Autobiographical: 1595–1600?

VI.

VI Epigrams.

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Martin had much a farther reach, then euery man can gesse,
Hee might haue cald himselfe Mar-preest, that hath bene somewhat lesse,
But seeking all to overthrowe, what ever high might be:
Mar-prelate he did call himselfe, a foe to high degree.