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LYLY MEMBRE DU PARLEMENT

John Mervin, gent. : . M Ron ae 1 Feb. 15889 Hindon Borough (Wilts).

(Members of Parliament. Part. I. Parliaments of England, 1213-1702, p. 425).

1. « Under the arte of figges (to cleare him from the crowne to the waste with à quip) he shadowes Master Lilly » (Nash, Haue with you.…, III, 52). Cf. le titre de Pap-hatchet.

a, Pierces Supererogation avait pour sous-titre: « or À new praise of the Olde Asse ».

DD? JOHN LYLY

PUBLICATION D'ENDIMION, GALLATHEA & MIDAS

4° Octobris [1591] mystres Broome Wydowe Late Wyfe of William Broome. Entred for her copies vnder the hand of the Bishop of London : T'hree Comedies plaied before her maiestie by the Children of Paules th[e] one Called Endimion. Thfe] other. Galathea amd th{e] other, Midas. xvid.

(E. Arber, Stationers Registers, IT, 596.)

LYLY MEMBRE DU PARLEMENT

Sir Thomas Weste, knt. Aylesbury Borough John Lillye, esq. (Bucks.) (Members of Parliament, Part I, Parliaments of England, 1213-1702, p. 427).

Febr. 1592/3.

LYLY SE PLAINT À ROBERT CECIL QU'ON L'AIT EMPÊCHÉ DE PROUVER SON DÉVOUEMENT Î

My duety humbly remembred.

Among all y° overthwartes of my poore fortunes, this y° gretest, y wher I most expected to shew my dutifull affection, I am cutt of from y° meanes.

My wittes wer not so low bitten by eating & neuer filled with misery ? but y° some Inuention might haue grased, yf not for Content, yet for servic.