Quotes
Quotes - Bartas
The world's a stage where God's omnipotence,
His justice, knowledge, love, and providence
Do act the parts.
And reads, though running, all these needful motions.
Mercy and justice, marching cheek by joule.
Not 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.
What is well done is done soon enough.
And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
Night's black mantle covers all alike.
Hot and cold, and moist and dry.
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.
With tooth and nail.
From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste.
Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.
From north to south, from east to west.
Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,
The source of motion.
Not that the earth doth yield
In hill or dale, in forest or in field,
A rarer plant.
'T is what you will,--or will be what you would.
Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils.
To man the earth seems altogether
No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.
For where's the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the bees for government?
A good turn at need,
At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.
There is no theam more plentifull to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul.
Or 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.
Even 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.
Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.
