“Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours
Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: " A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,—by deeds, not years", Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Pizarro, Act iv, Scene 1.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“My lovely living boy,
My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: "My fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world", William Shakespeare, King John, act iii. sc. 4.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Second Week, First Day, Part iv.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)