Tudor & Elizabethan

John Lyly

1554–1600


John Lyly was an Elizabethan courtier, prose stylist and dramatist, author of Euphues. Songs from his court comedies are among the earliest English stage lyrics.

Palgrave includes "Cupid and Campaspe", a song from his play Campaspe.

  1. Cupid and Campaspe
  2. Spring's Welcome
  3. O Cruel Love
  4. Vulcan's Song
  5. Pages and the Watch
  6. Fairy Revels
  7. Cupid Arraigned
  8. Daphne
  9. Syrinx
  10. Song to Apollo
  11. Io, Bacchus!
  12. Love's College

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