"Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes), Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes; Who loving novels, full of affectation, Receive the manners of each other nation."
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First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Report of fashions in proud Italy, Whose manners still our apish nation Limps after in base imitation", William Shakespeare, Richard II, act ii. sc. 1.
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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544 – July 1590) was a French poet.
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