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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Page 969

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas. (1544–1590) (continued)

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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.
Crown’d 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 Night’s 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 Night’s Dream, act iv. sc. 1. [back]

Note 8.
See Burton, Quotation 24. [back]

Note 9.
See Swift, Quotation 40. [back]

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