Isaac de Benserade
French writer
Isaac de Benserade (baptized November 5, 1613 – October 10, 1691) was a French poet.
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- Théâtre des ris et des pleurs
Lit! où je nais, et où je meurs,
Tu nous fais voir comment voisins
Sont nos plaisirs et chagrins.- In bed we laugh, in bed we cry;
And, born in bed, in bed we die.
The near approach a bed may show
Of human bliss to human woe.- Translated by Samuel Johnson, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- In bed we laugh, in bed we cry;
