“Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.”

—  John Lyly, book Euphues

Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 39. Compare: "Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,/ But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy", William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act i, sc. 3.

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