And reads, though running, all these needful motions.

 

And reads, though running, all these needful motions.
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First Week, First Day. Compare: "Shine by the side of every path we tread / With such a lustre, he that runs may read", William Cowper, Tirocinium, line 79.

 

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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