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Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep] by Franois Villon translated by Galway Kinnell The goat scratches so much it can't sleep The pot fetches water so much it breaks You heat iron so much it reddens You hammer it so much it cracks A man's worth so much as he's esteemed He's away so much he's forgotten He's bad so much he's hated We cry good news so much it comes. You talk so much you refute yourself Fame's worth so much as its perquisites You promise so much you renege You beg so much you get your wish A thing costs so much you want it You want it so much you get it It's around so much you want it no more We cry good news so much it comes. You love a dog so much you feed it A song's loved so much as people hum it A fruit is kept so much it rots You strive for a place so much it's taken You dawdle so much you miss your chance You hurry so much you run into bad luck You grasp so hard you lose your grip We cry good news so much it comes. You jeer so much nobody laughs You spend so much you've lost your shirt You're honest so much you're broke 'Take it' is worth so much as a promise You love God so much you go to church You give so much you have to borrow The wind shifts so much it blows cold We cry good news so much it comes. Prince a fool lives so much he grows wise He travels so much he returns home He's beaten so much he reverts to form We cry good news so much it comes.

Franois Villon Most of what is known about Franois Villon has been gathered from legal records and gleaned from his own writings. Villon was born to a young, poor French couple in 1431. His father died when he was a small boy, and he and his mother were left in a poverty made worse as Paris suffered through English occupation, civil war, and famine. The boy was then brought to Guillaume de Villon, a chaplain of the church of Saint-Benot-le-Bntourn and future professor of ecclesiastical law at the University of Paris. Master Guillaume adopted Franois, gave him his surname, and began teaching him Latin grammar and syntax. At the age of eleven, Villon became a student in the Faculty of Arts of the University, and under his adopted-fathers tutelage received his bachelors degree in 1449. By 1452, when Villon received his Master of Arts degree, the young man was on the cusp of a promising career in either Church or law. Little is known about his life for the next few years, but on June 5, 1455, Villon was arrested for killing the priest Philippe Sermoise in a bar brawl in Paris. On his deathbed, however, the priest publicly forgave Villon, who had fled the city. The young poet was royally pardoned. Early in 1456, Villon returned to his home in Paris. In December, he wrote Le Lais, also known as Le Petit Testament, one of Villons most important works. Villon claimed to have finished the poem at Christmas, while at the same time he met up with a number of acquaintances and later stole 500 gold crowns from a coffer at the College of Navarre, where the community kept their funds. In Le Lais, Villon shows himself composing the poem during the same hours he was orchestrating the robbery. In Louis Simpsons notes to the translation, he poses the question: 'Could it be that he wrote these stanzas after the robbery at the College in order to provide himself with an alibi?' Villon left Paris shortly after the incident to find sanctuary in the provinces. Meanwhile, some of his criminal compatriots formed a small gan

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