Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes
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I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.
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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.
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And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
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The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.
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Night's black Mantle covers all alike.
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For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?
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Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.
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Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
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There is no Theam more plentifull to scan, Then is the glorious goodly frame of Man.
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The will for deed I doe accept.
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Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.
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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.
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A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.
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What is well done is done soon enough.
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In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.
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