Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, a French poet, was born in Bordeaux, France in 1544 and died in 1590. His poetry is characterized by its profound religious and philosophical themes and is considered one of the representative figures of French classical poetry.
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“A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.”
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“Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.”
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“And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.”
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“Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.”
“I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.”
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“For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?”
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“There is no Theam more plentifull to scan, Then is the glorious goodly frame of Man.”
“In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.”
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“What is well done is done soon enough.”
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“Night's black Mantle covers all alike.”
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