Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Night's black Mantle covers all alike.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

What is well done is done soon enough.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

The will for deed I doe accept.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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…

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may…

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas