01c. 1567 ADThe world 's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.Du Bartas / quote ↗
04c. 1567 ADNot 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.Du Bartas / quote ↗
09c. 1567 ADMuch 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.Du Bartas / quote ↗
15c. 1567 ADNot that the earth doth yield In hill or dale, in forest or in field, A rarer plant.Du Bartas / quote ↗
18c. 1567 ADTo man the earth seems altogether No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.Du Bartas / quote ↗
19c. 1567 ADFor where 's the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government?Du Bartas / quote ↗
21c. 1567 ADThere is no theam more plentifull to scan Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.Du Bartas / quote ↗
23c. 1567 ADOr 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.Du Bartas / quote ↗
24c. 1567 ADEven 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.Du Bartas / quote ↗
