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Lyly, John

(Encyclopedia) Lyly or Lilly, JohnLyly or Lilly, Johnboth: lĭlˈē [key], 1554?–1606, English dramatist and prose writer. An accomplished courtier, he also served as a member of Parliament from 1589 to…

Deloney, Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Deloney, ThomasDeloney, Thomasdəlōˈnē [key], c.1543–c.1600, English ballad writer, fiction writer, and pamphleteer. He was a silk weaver. Deloney's chief works are three prose…

euphuism

(Encyclopedia) euphuismeuphuismy&oomacr;ˈfy&oomacr;ĭzəm [key], in English literature, a highly elaborate and artificial style that derived from the Euphues (1578) of John Lyly and that…

Marprelate controversy

(Encyclopedia) Marprelate controversyMarprelate controversymärˈprĕlˌĭt [key], a 16th-century English religious argument. Martin Marprelate was the pseudonym under which appeared several Puritan…

Endymion

(Encyclopedia) EndymionEndymionĕndĭmˈēən [key], in Greek mythology, young shepherd, loved by Selene (the moon). In one version of his legend, he asked Zeus for immortality and perpetual youth. Zeus…

More, Sir Thomas

(Encyclopedia) More, Sir Thomas (Saint Thomas More), 1478–1535, English statesman and author of Utopia, celebrated as a martyr in the Roman Catholic Church. He received a Latin education in the…

Wedding Quotations

Love, comfort, and honor Compiled by Elizabeth Olson "(Marriage) is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God…

Greene, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Greene, Robert, 1558?–1592, English author. His short romances, written in the manner of Lyly's Euphues, include Pandosto (1588), from which Shakespeare drew the plot for A Winter's…

Brewer's: Crowd

or Crouth. A species of fiddle with six or more strings. The last noted player on this instrument was John Morgan, who died 1720. (Welsh, crwth.) “O sweet consent, between a crowd and a…