LA CONDUITE DE LYLY A OXFORD ET AU SAVOY D'APRÈS HARVEY

They were much deceiued in him, at Oxford, and in the Sauoy, when Master Absolon liued; that tooke him onely for a dapper & deft companion, or a pert-conceited youth, that had gathered-togither a fewe prettie sentences, and could handsomly helpe young Euphues to an old Simile : & neuer thought him any such mighty doer at the sharpe. (G. Harvey, Aduertisement for Papp-hatchett, Works, IT, 128.)