The Early French Poets
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\ Avugle sont, de ce ne dout-je mie,9 Ki un secours ne font Dieu en sa vie, Et por si pot pert la gloire del mont. Diex se laissa por nos en crois pener, Et nous dira au jour, ou tuit10 venront, " Vos, ki ma crois m'aidates à porter, Vos en irez là, ou li Angele sont, Là me verrez, et ma Mere Marie ; Et vos, par qui je n'oi onques aie,11 Descendez tuit en infer le parfont."12 Cascuns quide13 demeurer toz'4 haitiez,15 Et que jamais ne doive mal avoir, Ainsi les tient enemis et pechiez, Que ils n'ont sens, hardement, ne pooir : Bian Sire Diex ostez nos tel pensée, Et nos metez en la vostre contrée Si saintement, que vos puisse veoir. L'envoi. Douce Dame, Roine coronée, Proiez pour nos, Virge bien eurée,'6 Et puis après ne nos puit mescheoir.'7 9 Mie—a jot. 10 Tuit— all. " Aie—aid. "Parfont —profound. " Quide—credit (Latin) thinks. 14 Toz —ail. 15 Haitiez—healthy. 16 Bien eurée—bienheureuse. " Mescheoir—to fall out ill. ANTOINE HEROET. Avia Pieridum peragro loca. Antoine Heroet, how strange soever his name may now appear, in his own day was thought worthy of being put in competition with Clement Marot, who has had the better fortune of being still at least talked of. Joachim du Bellay, in his Defence and Illustration of the French Language, in which he has spoken of both more than once, informs us of the qualities by which each of them had attracted his own particular set of admirers. One man, says he, will tell you that he likes Marot, because he is easy, and not far removed from the matter of common discourse; another, that Heroet pleases him, because his verses are learned,grave, and elaborate. It has happened as might be expected—the natural vein of the one has outlasted the erudition of the other. Heroet may properly be called a...
