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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas (1544, Monfort – July 1590, Mauvezin) was a Gascon Huguenot courtier and poet. Trained as a doctor of law, he served in the court of Henri de Navarre for most of his career. Du Bartas was celebrated across sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe for his divine poetry, particularly L'Uranie (1584), Judit (1584), La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578), and La Seconde Semaine (1584-1603).

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The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.

Knowledge, Love, Omnipotence, Parts

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 manners of each other nation.

French, Habit, Like, Shapes, Strange

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

Fire, Heat, Motion, Source

Night's black Mantle covers all alike.

Alike, Black, Covers, Mantle, Night

God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.

Deep Water, Drowned, Lakes, Sea, See

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

Break, Breaks, Faith

What is well done is done soon enough.

Done, Enough, Soon Enough, Wells

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

Bees, Firmament, Government, State, States

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

Firsts, Good, Lasts, Meed, Needs, Turn

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

Glorious, Goodly, Man, Men, Scan, Theam

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

Men, Personage, Play, Take, World

The will for deed I doe accept.

Accept, Accepting, Deed, Deeds, Doe

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

Apoplexie, Disease, Enemy, Forlorn, Hope

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

Crowes, Ifs, Seems, Swans, Swart

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

Affright, Day, Day And Night, Hedge, Night