Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas. 1544-1590. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas. (1544–1590)

The world ’s a stage 1 where God’s omnipotence,
His justice, knowledge, love, and providence
Do act the parts.

First Week, First Day.

And reads, though running, 2 all these needful motions.

First Week, First Day.

Mercy and justice, marching cheek by joule.

First Week, First Day.

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

First Week, First Day.

What is well done is done soon enough.

First Week, First Day.

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

First Week, First Day.

Night’s black mantle covers all alike. 4

First Week, First Day.

Hot and cold, and moist and dry. 5

First Week, Second Day.

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

First Week, Second Day.

With tooth and nail.

First Week, Second Day.

From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste. 7

First Week, Second Day.

Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies. 8

First Week, Second Day.

From north to south, from east to west. 9

First Week, Second Day.

Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,
The source of motion. 10

First Week, Second Day.

Not that the earth doth yield
In hill or dale, in forest or in field,
A rarer plant. 11

First Week, Third Day.

’T is what you will,—or will be what you would.

First Week, Third Day.

Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils. 12

First Week, Third Day.

To man the earth seems altogether
No more a mother, but a step-dame rather. 13

First Week, Third Day.

For where ’s the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the bees for government? 14

First Week, Fifth Day, Part i.

A good turn at need,
At first or last, shall be assur’d of meed.

First Week, Sixth Day.

There is no theam more plentifull to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man. 15

First Week, Sixth Day.

These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul. 16

First Week, Sixth Day.

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

First Week, Sixth Day.

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.

First Week, Sixth Day.

Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart. 18

First Week, Sixth Day.

Which serves for cynosure 19
To all that sail upon the sea obscure.

First Week, Seventh Day.

Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes
That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses. 20

Second Week, First Day, Part i.

Turning our seed-wheat-kennel tares,
To burn-grain thistle, and to vaporie darnel,
Cockle, wild oats, rough burs, corn-cumbring
Tares. 21

Second Week, First Day, Part iii.

In every hedge and ditch both day and night
We fear our death, of every leafe affright. 22

Second Week, First Day, Part iii.

Dog, ounce, bear, and bull,
Wolfe, lion, horse. 23

Second Week, First Day, Part iii.

Apoplexie and lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

Second Week, First Day, Part iii.

Living from hand to mouth.

Second Week, First Day, Part iv.

In the jaws of death. 24

Second Week, First Day, Part iv.

Did thrust as now in others’ corn his sickle. 25

Second Week, Second Day, Part ii.

Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought
To orient pearls. 26

Second Week, Third Day, Part i.

Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber. 27

Second Week, Third Day, Part i.

The will for deed I doe accept. 28

Second Week, Third Day, Part ii.

Only that he may conform
To tyrant custom. 29

Second Week, Third Day, Part ii.

Sweet grave aspect. 30

Second Week, Fourth Day, Book i.

Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.