Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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COLET (John). [Aeditio, una cum quibusdam G. Lilij. Grammatices
rudiemtnis, G. Lilij epigramma.][Antwerp: M. de Keyser, 1534?]
The Aeditio has on recto (of E7?) lines 25-6: “GVILLELMI LILII ANGLI /
RVDIMENTA.”; and last page of carmen de moribus, on verso (of F7?) line 1 begins: “Clamor, rixa”. The types in the Aeditio are 72 and 96mm. bastarda an 80mm. italic.” - STC. First published in 1527 for use at Colet’s St. Paul’s School and frequently reprinted. Lily’s grammar became the standard school text book well into the 18th. century. http://www.maggs.com/pdfcatalogues/stevens%20cox.pdf
More, it be anglosized to Latin Grammer[Lilly’s Latin Grammar] that got the Bard up and at it. The following selection is taken from a reprint of W. Lily’s, A Short Introduction of Grammar (London, 1650), found in a diminutive (4” x 6”), but lengthy, book of approximately 400 pages in the Rare Books Collection of Dinand Library of Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/classics/wziobro/Readings/UNITIV.htm
John Lyly (Lilly or Lylie) (c. 1553 – 1606)
http://academic.reed.edu/english/gre/Lyly.html
William Lily had been the first High Master of St Paul’s (1512-22), Dean (John) Colet was the school’s founder. (see L&M iii.34.n.1)