“In every hedge and ditch both day and night
We fear our death, of every leafe affright.”

—  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Second Week, First Day, Part iii. Compare: "The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies", William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act iii. Sc. 1.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)

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