Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas writes lofty, reverent verses that echo deep faith and moral reflection.
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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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Mercy and justice, marching cheek by joule.
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What is well done is done soon enough.
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And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
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Night's black mantle covers all alike.
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And reads, though running, all these needful motions.
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Not unlike the bear which bringeth forth In the end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth; But after licking, it in shape she drawes, And by degrees she fashions out the pawes, The head, and neck, and finally doth bring To a perfect beast that first deformed thing.
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Bright-flaming, heat-full fire, The source of motion.
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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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From north to south, from east to west.
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Hot and cold, and moist and dry.
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From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste.
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Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.
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With tooth and nail.
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'T is what you will,-or will be what you would.
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Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils.
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Not that the earth doth yield In hill or dale, in forest or in field, A rarer plant.
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To man the earth seems altogether No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.
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For where's the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government?
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A good turn at need, At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.
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There is no theam more plentifull to scan Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
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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.
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These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul.
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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.
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Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.
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Which serves for cynosure To all that sail upon the sea obscure.
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Turning our seed-wheat-kennel tares, To burn-grain thistle, and to vaporie darnel, Cockle, wild oats, rough burs, corn-cumbring Tares.
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Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
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Living from hand to mouth.
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Dog, ounce, bear, and bull, Wolfe, lion, horse.
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Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.
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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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In the jaws of death.
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Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle.
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Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought To orient pearls.
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Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber.
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The will for deed I doe accept.
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Only that he may conform To tyrant custom.
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Sweet grave aspect.
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My lovely living boy, My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.
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Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.
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Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
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Out of the book of Natur's learned brest.
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Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.
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Through thick and thin, both over hill and plain.
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Weakened and wasted to skin and bone.
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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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Made no more bones.
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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.