Peter -- Lyly is interesting, you're right -- little good scholarship on
his work exists, particularly on (I think) Sidney's reaction to it.
Ironic given his brand of intensely honeyed rhetoric that he spent his
life hankering after a preferment never to materialise. We might here
again resort to talk on LEISURE, since Lyly's prose is almost a
paradigmatic case of dependence of that condition thoroughly detailed and
trumped up and lace-edged. Purple is clearly the wrong word but curious
writing like this seems historically (your word this time) related to
leisure-levels, more or less obviously. k
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