740 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
There w&s also (published in 1651) a “Last Will and Testa¬ 
ment of Captain James Hind, the noted outlaw, “full of va¬ 
rious conceits beyond expectation.” 1 
In France, too, we find several examples of the testament 
during this century. Le Testament et derniere volente du 
sieur Conchini Conchino (1617) is described by Peignot as a 
diatribe against the Marshall of Ancre and his wife. 2 Le Tes¬ 
tament de Theophile (1626) is found in a collection of pieces 
for and against the poet Theophile Viaud. 3 Among other 
things the poet is made to will away, in satirical mood, his 
pen, ink, and writings. Of Le Testament de fen Gualtier Gar- 
guille and Le Testament de Gros-Gillaume, both of 1634, Peig¬ 
not remarks: “Ces faceties populaires n’out de prix que par 
leur rarete.” 3 5 Le Testament de Bacchus / recommended 
as a cure for melancholy, and Le Testament du Viable 
d’Argent, “diatribe qui fait partie des Mazarinades,” 6 both be¬ 
long to the year 1649. To the same year belongs the Codicile 
Tres-veritdble de Jules Mazarin. 7 The cardinal is represented 
as realizing that he must flee from France. He takes this occa¬ 
sion to make his will. He is represented as making most lav¬ 
ish bequests from his store of ill-gotten goods. Several satiri¬ 
cal bequests are made to charities; among these a gift of 100,000 
livres to marriageable girls, to be distributed as the Jesuit 
Fathers see fit. In Le De Profuhdis de Jules Mazarin (Paris, 
1649) the cardinal is made to confess his wicked deeds, ex¬ 
press regret for his ill-spent life, and to ask pardon of God, of 
the king, and of France. 
Under the year 1660 we have the Testament de Scarron. 8 
It is written in rimed couplets with eight syllables to the line. 
In a spirit of daring raillery Scarron contemplates death and 
makes his testament. Apollo and the muses take the place of 
1 Chandler, Literature of Roguery , I, 150. 
2 Peignot, II, 284. 
s Ibid. II, 285. See also K. Schirmacher, Theophile de Viau: Sew, 
Lehen und seine WerTce. Leipsig and Paris, 1897.p. 167. 
4 Peignot, II, 285. 
5 Brunet, s. v. Testament. 
e Peignot, II, 286. i, 
7 Printed in a volume of Mazarinades, Paris, 1649. 
s Oeuvres de Scarron, Paris, 1787. 
