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Latin. In the first stanza the testator explains his character. 
He makes several satirical bequests and provides for his fu¬ 
neral, taking care that his body be buried. 
Quhair drink and draff may ilka day 
Be cassyne super facem meam. 1 
This testament is alive with wit. Few satirical testaments 
equal it in incisiveness. It shows decided influences of the 
Villon school. 
A very pretty testament comes at the end of the King Hart , 
written by Gavin Douglas about 1510. The poem is an alle¬ 
gory of the human heart, of its struggles with the temptations 
of youth and its final triumph in old age. When the king sees 
his end approach he sends for Death and makes his testament, 
in which he takes occasion to reward the sins that have attended 
his youth by leaving them severally the weaknesses and misfor¬ 
tunes for which they have been responsible. 
In France imitations of Villon continued to appear. Among 
such satirical imitations may be placed Le Testament fin Ruby 
de Turcquie, written about 1510, 2 Le Testament de Jenin de 
lesche, written about 1520, 3 4 and Le Testament de la GuerreJ 
of about the same date. The latter is an allegory showing how 
War bequeaths blessings on those who have called her justly and 
curses to those who unjustly have invoked her. 
Le Testament de Lucifer (c. T521), 5 by Pierre Gringoire, is 
also an allegory. The devil, wishing to engender malice, leaves ‘ 
as his daughters forty-four Vices to be wedded to appropriate 
1 With this compare a popular rime I picked up in E. Tennessee dur¬ 
ing the summer of 1907 
When I die don’ bury me a taH, 
But soak my body in alcohol. 
When I die bury me deep 
En put a quart u’ licker at my head en feet. 
And this from Mississippi: 
When I die bury me deep; 
Tell all the gamblers I’ve gone to sleep. 
Put a pair of bones in my right hand 
And I’ll throw seven in the promised land. 
2 Montaiglon, XIII, 1. 
s Montaiglon, X, 369; see also J. C. Brunet, Manual du Lxbraire et 
de Vamateur de Limes , Paris, 1864. 
4 Campaux, p. 283. 
s “Nouvellement imprime,” Paris, 1845. 
