(504) Does John Lyly (similarly to Marlowe) belong to the (pseudo)Predecessors of Shakespeare?

John Lyly

"There is a closer, fuller, more vital and more detailed connexion between the work of Lyly and Shakespeare than has hitherto been shown" (RW Bond)

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Similar to Shakspere (Stratford) it is by no means certain that a John Lyly is identical with  the author (John Lylie) of Campaspe, Sapho,  Endymion, Midas Galathea "Woman in the moon , (written in  the 15eighties, a period, when Marlowe/ Shakespeare  were  grown-up, but literary silent....)

Richard W. Bond- (1902) "called attention not only to some general points of practice, wherin Lyly set the example to Shakespeare, but also to great many Shakespeare parallels of phrase or idea"  ...He left" no doubt that the great majority of such  are cases of imitation, adaptation, or unconscious reminiscence by Shakespeare," which were not of "mere coincidence".-

Euphism (expression invented  by Harvey, 1589), defines a literary phenomenon  or  style of very peculiar character which had a great influence on the literature and the conversation language of the Elizabethan period in the 1580s..

The means used by Euphism  basically are to increase the emphasis. At first among them is the use  of Antithesis  (alternate hypothesis, dialectics, contraries, opposite)

K.Kneile concluded in his Dissertation 1914 on John Lyly that he  perfected the distinctive rhetorical devices on which the style was based.  
<----His “Euphues, the anatomy of wyt"” you may name  a constant great forth ongoing Antithesis. (s.Book title left)

It includes all forms, from the simplest to the most complicated. One, and more often two, three, or more words in the same sentences are parallel in position and grammatical function .

It can (and must be) stated, that Marlowe was the greatest master of the antithesis !

 He should  have had something to do with Lily?