John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas. (15441590) (continued)
9362 Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses. 1
Second Week, First Day, Part i.
9363 Turning our seed-wheat-kennel tares, To burn-grain thistle, and to vaporie darnel, Cockle, wild oats, rough burs, corn-cumbring Tares. 2
Second Week, First Day, Part iii.
9364 In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright. 3
Second Week, First Day, Part iii.
9365 Dog, ounce, bear, and bull, Wolfe, lion, horse. 4
Second Week, First Day, Part iii.
9366 Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
Second Week, First Day, Part iii.
9367 Living from hand to mouth.
Second Week, First Day, Part iv.
9368 In the jaws of death. 5
Second Week, First Day, Part iv.
9369 Did thrust as now in others corn his sickle. 6
Second Week, Second Day, Part ii.
9370 Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought To orient pearls. 7
Second Week, Third Day, Part i.
9371 Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber. 8
Second Week, Third Day, Part i.
9372 The will for deed I doe accept. 9
Second Week, Third Day, Part ii.
Note 1. See Milton, Quotation 291 . [back ]Note 2. Crownd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.William Shakespeare : Lear, act iv. sc. 4. [back ]Note 3. See Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Quotation 22 . [back ]Note 4. Lion, bear, or wolf, or bull.William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Nights Dream, act ii. sc. 1. [back ]Note 5. See Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Quotation 38 . [back ]Note 6. See Publius Syrus, Quotation 61 . [back ]Note 7. See Milton, Quotation 125 . Orient pearls.William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Nights Dream, act iv. sc. 1. [back ]Note 8. See Burton, Quotation 24 . [back ]Note 9. See Swift, Quotation 40 . [back ]