Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes

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.

Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber.

From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste.

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

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

And reads, though running, all these needful motions.

What is well done is done soon enough.

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

Through thick and thin, both over hill and plain.

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

Night's black mantle covers all alike.

Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.

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.

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

Weakened and wasted to skin and bone.