Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas 1544-1590 John Bartlett


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The world ’s a stage 1 where God’s omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.
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And reads, though running, 2 all these needful motions.
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Mercy and justice, marching cheek by joule.
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Not unlike the bear which bringeth forth In the end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth; But after licking, it in shape she drawes, And by degrees she fashions out the pawes, The head, and neck, and finally doth bring To a perfect beast that first deformed thing. 3
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What is well done is done soon enough.
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And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
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Night’s black mantle covers all alike. 4
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Hot and cold, and moist and dry. 5
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Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes), Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes; Who loving novels, full of affectation, Receive the manners of each other nation. 6
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With tooth and nail.
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From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste. 7
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Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies. 8
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From north to south, from east to west. 9
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Bright-flaming, heat-full fire, The source of motion. 10
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Not that the earth doth yield In hill or dale, in forest or in field, A rarer plant. 11
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’T is what you will,—or will be what you would.
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Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils. 12
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To man the earth seems altogether No more a mother, but a step-dame rather. 13
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For where ’s the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government? 14
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A good turn at need, At first or last, shall be assur’d of meed.
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There is no theam more plentifull to scan Than is the glorious goodly frame of man. 15
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These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul. 16
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Or almost like a spider, who, confin’d In her web’s centre, shakt with every winde, Moves in an instant if the buzzing flie Stir but a string of her lawn canapie. 17
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Even as a surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb,—before in ure he put His violent engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his patient in a senseless slumber, And grief-less then (guided by use and art), To save the whole, sawes off th’ infested part.
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Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart. 18
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Which serves for cynosure 19 To all that sail upon the sea obscure.
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Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses. 20
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Turning our seed-wheat-kennel tares, To burn-grain thistle, and to vaporie darnel, Cockle, wild oats, rough burs, corn-cumbring Tares. 21
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In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright. 22
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Dog, ounce, bear, and bull, Wolfe, lion, horse. 23
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Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
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Living from hand to mouth.
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In the jaws of death. 24
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Did thrust as now in others’ corn his sickle. 25
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Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought To orient pearls. 26
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Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber. 27
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The will for deed I doe accept. 28
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Only that he may conform To tyrant custom. 29
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Sweet grave aspect. 30
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Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.
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Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours. 31
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My lovely living boy, My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy. 32
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Out of the book of Natur’s learned brest. 33
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Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
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Through thick and thin, both over hill and plain. 34
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Weakened and wasted to skin and bone. 35
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I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men do play their personage. 36
Dialogue between Heraclitus and Democritus.
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Made no more bones.
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Note 1.
See Shakespeare. As You Like It, Quotation 36. [back]

Note 2.
See Cowper, Quotation 98. [back]

Note 3.
See Burton, Quotation 7. [back]

Note 4.
Come civil night,… with thy black mantle.—William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2. [back]

Note 5.
See Milton, Quotation 71. [back]

Note 6.
Report of fashions in proud Italy,
Whose manners still our apish nation
Limps after in base imitation.
William Shakespeare: Richard II. act ii. sc. 1. [back]

Note 7.
See Shakespeare, King John, Quotation 32. [back]

Note 8.
See Milton, Quotation 283. [back]

Note 9.
From north to south, from east to west.—William Shakespeare: Winter’s Tale, act i. sc. 2. [back]

Note 10.
Heat considered as a Mode of Motion (title of a treatise, 1863).—John Tyndall. [back]

Note 11.
See Marlowe, Quotation 4. [back]

Note 12.
The cattle upon a thousand hills.—Psalm i. 10. [back]

Note 13.
See Pliny, Quotation 5. [back]

Note 14.
So work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
William Shakespeare: Henry V. act i. sc. 3. [back]

Note 15.
See Pope, Quotation 1. [back]

Note 16.
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.—William Shakespeare: Richard III. act v. sc. 3. [back]

Note 17.
See Davies, Quotation 1. [back]

Note 18.
See Pope, Quotation 306. [back]

Note 19.
See Milton, Quotation 283. [back]

Note 20.
See Milton, Quotation 291. [back]

Note 21.
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]

Note 22.
See Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Quotation 22. [back]

Note 23.
Lion, bear, or wolf, or bull.—William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act ii. sc. 1. [back]

Note 24.
See Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Quotation 38. [back]

Note 25.
See Publius Syrus, Quotation 61. [back]

Note 26.
See Milton, Quotation 125.

Orient pearls.—William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act iv. sc. 1. [back]

Note 27.
See Burton, Quotation 24. [back]

Note 28.
See Swift, Quotation 40. [back]

Note 29.
See Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Quotation 14. [back]

Note 30.
See Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Quotation 14. Also Milton, Quotation 48. [back]

Note 31.
See Sheridan, Quotation 40. [back]

Note 32.
My fair son!
My life, my joy, my food, my all the world.
William Shakespeare: King John, act iii. sc. 4. [back]

Note 33.
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.—Paracelsus, 1490–1541. (From the Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, vol. xviii. p. 234.) [back]

Note 34.
See Spenser, Quotation 15. [back]

Note 35.
See Byrom, Quotation 6. [back]

Note 36.
See Shakespeare, As You Like It, Quotation 36. [back]

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