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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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    What is well done is done soon enough.
          First Week, First Day.
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    And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
          First Week, First Day.
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    Night’s black mantle covers all alike. 1
          First Week, First Day.
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    Hot and cold, and moist and dry. 2
          First Week, Second Day.
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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. 3
          First Week, Second Day.
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    With tooth and nail.
          First Week, Second Day.
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    From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste. 4
          First Week, Second Day.
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    Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies. 5
          First Week, Second Day.
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    From north to south, from east to west. 6
          First Week, Second Day.
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    Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,
The source of motion. 7
          First Week, Second Day.
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    Not that the earth doth yield
In hill or dale, in forest or in field,
A rarer plant. 8
          First Week, Third Day.
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    ’T is what you will,—or will be what you would.
          First Week, Third Day.
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    Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils. 9
          First Week, Third Day.
 
Note 1.
Come civil night,… with thy black mantle.—William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2. [back]
Note 2.
See Milton, Quotation 71. [back]
Note 3.
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 4.
See Shakespeare, King John, Quotation 32. [back]
Note 5.
See Milton, Quotation 283. [back]
Note 6.
From north to south, from east to west.—William Shakespeare: Winter’s Tale, act i. sc. 2. [back]
Note 7.
Heat considered as a Mode of Motion (title of a treatise, 1863).—John Tyndall. [back]
Note 8.
See Marlowe, Quotation 4. [back]
Note 9.
The cattle upon a thousand hills.—Psalm i. 10. [back]