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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas. (1544–1590) (continued)
 
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    Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes
That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses. 1
          Second Week, First Day, Part i.
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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. 2
          Second Week, First Day, Part iii.
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    In every hedge and ditch both day and night
We fear our death, of every leafe affright. 3
          Second Week, First Day, Part iii.
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    Dog, ounce, bear, and bull,
Wolfe, lion, horse. 4
          Second Week, First Day, Part iii.
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    Apoplexie and lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
          Second Week, First Day, Part iii.
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    Living from hand to mouth.
          Second Week, First Day, Part iv.
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    In the jaws of death. 5
          Second Week, First Day, Part iv.
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    Did thrust as now in others’ corn his sickle. 6
          Second Week, Second Day, Part ii.
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    Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought
To orient pearls. 7
          Second Week, Third Day, Part i.
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    Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber. 8
          Second Week, Third Day, Part i.
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    The will for deed I doe accept. 9
          Second Week, Third Day, Part ii.
 
Note 1.
See Milton, Quotation 291. [back]
Note 2.
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 3.
See Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Quotation 22. [back]
Note 4.
Lion, bear, or wolf, or bull.—William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act ii. sc. 1. [back]
Note 5.
See Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Quotation 38. [back]
Note 6.
See Publius Syrus, Quotation 61. [back]
Note 7.
See Milton, Quotation 125.

Orient pearls.—William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act iv. sc. 1. [back]
Note 8.
See Burton, Quotation 24. [back]
Note 9.
See Swift, Quotation 40. [back]