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satire, of profound sensibility, of calm judgment, and of pensive melan- 

 choly. A'illon is beyond all doubt a great poet, at once natural and 

 independent ; he is distinguished for his lively imagination, his wit, and his 

 good feeling ; and though the form of his poetry has become obsolete, the 



Fig. 343. The Castle of Loves. Miniature taken from the " Champion des Dames." Manuscript 

 of the Fifteenth Century (No. 12,476). In the National Library, Paris. 



matter itself has lost none of its freshness. It would seem as if scapegraces 

 were pools by nature, for two of Villon's companions, Henri Baude and 

 Jourdain, surnamed the Unfortunate, were his rivals in poetry as in miscon- 

 duct. The former was the author of the " Debat de la Dame et de 1'ficuyer," 



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