“Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.”
Francois Villon (1431–1463) Mediæval French poet
Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Francois Villon, Prince of all Ballad-Makers" (1878), line 10.
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“Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.”
"A Ballad of Francois Villon", lines 10, 20 and 30.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)
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