Death & Dying
Variant of the Foregoing Epitaph
Translated by John Payne (1878; Mosher edition, 1909) · From Divers Poems
Death & Dying
FRANÇOIS am I, — woe worth it me !
Corbier my surname is aright :
Native of Auvers, near Pontoise citie;
Of folk for sobriquet Villon hight.
But for the gallant appeal I made,
My neck, in the bight of a rope of three,
Had known ere this what my buttocks weighed.
The game scarce seemed to me worth to be played.
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Villon, François. “Variant of the Foregoing Epitaph.” Translated by John Payne. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/villon/2/.
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Villon, François. “Variant of the Foregoing Epitaph.” Translated by John Payne. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/villon/2/.
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