Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes

• I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Men, Play, World

  Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”

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• God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Lakes, Deep Water, Sea

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• For where's the State beneath the Firmament,
  That doth excell the Bees for Government?

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Government, Bees, States

  Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”

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

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Night, Day And Night

  Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”

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

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Love, Knowledge, Omnipotence

  "La Semaine; ou, Création du monde". Poem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1578.

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• What is well done is done soon enough.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Soon Enough, Done, Wells

  Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”

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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.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Shapes, Strange, Habit

  Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”

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

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Enemy, Disease, Forlorn

  "La Seconde Semaine". Poem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1584.

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• And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Swans, Seems, Ifs

  Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”

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• There is no Theam more plentifull to scan,
  Then is the glorious goodly frame of Man.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Men, Glorious

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

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Break

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1613). “Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes”, p.555

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• The will for deed I doe accept.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Doe, Deeds, Accepting

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

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Needs, Lasts, Firsts

  Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”

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

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Fire, Heat, Source

  "La Semaine; ou, Création du monde". Poem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1578.

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• Night's black Mantle covers all alike.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Night, Black

  Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”

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