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God and the saints. He has nothing to leave his children, but 
he has a few gifts to bestow upon deserving friends. The cod¬ 
icil makes some additions to his bequests, and at last he appends 
his epitaph. The testament is an excellent piece of work. 
The satire goes straight to the mark. The whole poem is per¬ 
vaded by an air of jesting carelessness that reminds one of 
Shakespere’s Mercutio. 
Lalement’s Testament Spirituel (1674) belongs evidently to 
the class of moral testaments. 1 ‘From the citation by Barbier 
of the Testament de M. le Marechal de Schombert, a piece of 
verse belonging to 1689, I have not been able to determine to 
what class it belongs. 2 
About the middle of the century the testament in England 
began to find a place in the broadside ballad. The Hunting of 
the Hare with his last Will and Testament is the title of a broad¬ 
side printed in London in 1660. 3 The hare is brought to bay 
by the huntsman, and, having been refused its life, it makes 
its testament. The testament is very cleverly worked out and 
contains some very keen satire. There is a similar Testament 
of a Hare in a piece of verse called The Huntsman in Wit and 
Drollery (1661). 4 The hounds and the hare indulge in a dia¬ 
logue, and, at the bidding of the hounds, the hare makes his 
testament. In the Roxburgh Ballads is printed a broadside of 
1689 in which the pope is represented as making his will. 5 He 
leaves St. Peter’s old wornout chair to Cardinal Hick, to¬ 
gether with other relics such as Judas’ halter, the Patriarch’s 
ladder, a boot of St. Luke’s, and St. Anthony’s offence. 
Considerable use is made of the testament at the end of 
Pilgrim's Progress (1684). Christiana calls her children 
about her just before she dies and gives them her blessing. She 
bequeaths all she has to the poor. She advises her children to 
be ready when the messenger of death shall com© for them. 
To the care of Valiant she leaves her children. She bids 
adieu to Standfast, Honest, and Ready-to-halt, and gives ad- 
1 Louis Brun’s Catalogue de limes * * * sur la mort, No. 848. 
2 Barbier, s. v. Testament. 
s J. B. Ebswortb, The Roxhurghe Ballads, VII, 87. 
4 The Huntsman in Wit and Drollery, 1661, p. 214. 
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