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A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance

Note 614 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 6)

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Jeo ris en plour et en santé languis, Ars en gelée et en chalour frémis.

Ballad ix. No passage in Petrarch has been oftener imitated. Villon wrote:

Je meurs de soif auprès de la fontaine ... Je ris en pleurs et attens sans espoir, &c.

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