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Besides the Brevissima Institutio, Lily wrote a variety of Latin pieces and translations from Greek, both in prose and verse.

Some of the latter are printed along with the Latin verses of Sir Thomas More in Progymnasmata Thomae Mori et Gulielmi Lylii Sodalium ( 1518 ).

Another volume of Latin verse ( Antibossicon ad Gulielmum Hormannum, 1521 ) is directed against a rival schoolmaster and grammarian, Robert Whittington, who had " under the feigned name of Bossus, much provoked Lily with scoffs and biting verses.