This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...air, swinging at the wind's will, with face like a thimble for bird-pecks and skin blackened of "that ill sun which tans a man when he is dead." It is a foul death to die, he says, yet we must all die some day, and it matters little whether we then find ourselves a lord rotting in a splendid sepulchre or a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...air, swinging at the wind's will, with face like a thimble for bird-pecks and skin blackened of "that ill sun which tans a man when he is dead." It is a foul death to die, he says, yet we must all die some day, and it matters little whether we then find ourselves a lord rotting in a splendid sepulchre or a cutpurse strung up on Montfaucon hill. He laughs at his own rascality and poverty, lustfulness and gluttony, with an unexampled naivete of candour, singularly free from cynicism, yet always manages to conciliate our sympathies and induce our pity rather than our reprobation. "It is not to poor wretches like us," says he, " that are naked as a snake, sad at heart and empty of paunch, that you should preach virtue and temperance. As for us, God give us patience. You would do better to address yourselves to incite great lords and masters to good deeds, who eat and drink of the best every day and are more open to exhortation than beggars like ourselves that cease never from want." His faith in the saving virtues of meat and drink is both droll and touching. One feels, in all his verse, the distant and yearning respect with which the starveling poet regards all manner of victual, as he enumerates its various incarnations in a kind of litany or psalm of adorations, in which they resemble the denominations and attributes of saints and martyrs to whom he knelt in unceasing and ineffectual prayer. Wines, hypocras, roast meats, sauces, soups, custards, tarts, eggs, pheasants, partridges, plovers, pigeons, capons, fat geese, pies, cakes, furmenty, creams, pasties and other "savoureux et friands morceaux" defile in long and picturesque procession through his verse, like a dissolving view of Paradise, before whose...
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All Editions of The Poems of Master Fran?ois Villon of Paris: Now First Done Into English Verse in the Original Forms with a Biographical and Critical Introduction
