Or almost like a spider, who, confin'd In her web's centre,… - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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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.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544 – July 1590) was a French poet.

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Native Name: Guillaume du Bartas

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

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.

My lovely living boy,
My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.

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 … - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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