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 |
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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 |
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In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright. 3 |
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Dog, ounce, bear, and bull, Wolfe, lion, horse. 4 |
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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. 5 |
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Did thrust as now in others’ corn his sickle. 6 |
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Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought To orient pearls. 7 |
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Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber. 8 |
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The will for deed I doe accept. 9 |
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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] |