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• A good turn at need, At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Sixth Day...
• These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Sixth Day...
• With tooth and nail. -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Day
• There is no theam more plentifull to scan Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Sixth Day...
• 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.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Sixth Day...
• In the jaws of death.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week, First Day, Part iv...
• And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, First Week, First Day...
• Bright-flaming, heat-full fire, The source of motion.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Day...