Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes
d. 1590 France
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544 – July 1590) was a French poet.
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Also known as: Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas
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Only that he may conform
To tyrant custom.
Mercy and justice, marching cheek by joule.
And reads, though running, all these needful motions.
'T is what you will,—or will be what you would.
Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle.
And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.
Night's black mantle covers all alike.
There is no theam more plentifull to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
A good turn at need,
At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.
Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes
That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.
Which serves for cynosure
To all that sail upon the sea obscure.
Only that he may conform
To (Tyrant) customs.
From north to south, from east to west.
Weakened and wasted to skin and bone.
Hot and cold, and moist and dry.
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