The fashions and customs of his countrymen which he condemns in the course of his teaching are the same as those inveighed against by Stubbs and other contemporaries.

He disliked manners and fashions copied from Italy; particularly he disliked the extravagant fashions of women.

One woman only escapes his censure, and she, of course, is the Queen, whom Euphues and his companion in the book come to England to see.

In the main the teaching of Euphues inculcates a humane and liberal, if not very profound creed, and the book shares with _The Fairy Queen_ the honour of the earlier Puritanism--the Puritanism that besides the New Testament had the _Republic_.
But Euphues, though he was in his time the popular idol, was not long in finding a successful rival.

Seven years before his death Sir Philip Sidney, in a period of retirement from the Court wrote "_The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia_"; it was published ten years after it had been composed.