John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
9363 Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas 1544-1590 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 9363 |
| AUTHOR: | Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) |
| QUOTATION: | Turning our seed-wheat-kennel tares, To burn-grain thistle, and to vaporie darnel, Cockle, wild oats, rough burs, corn-cumbring Tares. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Second Week, First Day, Part iii. |
| Note 1. Crown’d with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn. William Shakespeare: Lear, act iv. sc. 4. [back] |