Tant grate chèvre que mal gist;
Tant va le pot à l’eau qu’il brise;
Tant chauffe-on le fer qu’il rougist;
Tant le maille-on qu’il se debrise;
Tant vault l’homme comme on le prise;
Tant s’eslongne-il qu’il n’en souvient;
Tant mauvais est qu’on le desprise;
Tant crie l’on Noel qu’il vient.
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François Villon (pronounced [fʁɑ̃swa vijɔ̃] in modern French; in fifteenth-century French, [frɑnswɛ vilɔn], c.
1431 – c. 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. A ne'er-do-well who was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities, Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems.
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