“Not that the earth doth yield
In hill or dale, in forest or in field,
A rarer plant.”

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

First Week, Third Day. Compare: "Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields", Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)

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French writer 1544–1590

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