Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Savoy, Volume VI.—October 1896 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <edition> <date>2019</date> </edition> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>SAVOYV6_21po</idno> <publisher>Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor>Symons, Arthur</editor> <author>François Villon</author> <author>Wratislaw, Theodore</author> <title level="j">The Epitaphe in Form of a Ballade Leonard Smithers London October 1896 Villon, François. "The Epitaph in Form of a Ballade." Translated by Theodore Wratislaw. The Savoy vol. 6, October 1896, pp. 61-62. Savoy Digital Edition, edited by Christopher Keep and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2018-2020. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019. https://1890s.ca/savoyv6-wratislaw-epitaph/

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<emph rend="bold"><emph rend="indent3" >                 THE EPITAPH</emph></emph>

IN FORM OF A BALLADE

WHICH VILLON MADE FOR HIMSELF AND HIS COMPANIONS        WHEN EXPECTING TO BE HANGED WITH THEM

BROTHERS who yet are living, mortal men, Speak not of us with wrath and bitter tongue, Since if your souls for us are filled with pain The more will God's grace fall your hearts among. You see us here upon the gibbets hung : The flesh that we too much did glorify Has long been putrid and devoured : and dry As dust and ashes now our bleached bones be. Let no man then our hideous shapes decry, But pray that God may show us all mercy. Brothers, speak not, we pray you, with disdain Of us poor five or six by law upstrung. It is not every man who has his brain Clear and well-seated, as has oft been sung. Make ye then intercession for our wrong To him whose death from Hell our souls did buy, Saving us from the flames that never die, That fresh may flow the fount of His pity. We are dead : let none to vex our spirits try, But pray that God may show us all mercy. Our bodies have been washed and drenched by rain, Dried up and blackened by the sun ; a throng Of ravens and of crows our eyes have ta'en And pluckt the brows and beards whereto they clung. 62THE SAVOY Never are we at rest, forever swung By every wind that shifts and passes by, Pecked by the sharp beaks of the crow and pye And dinted like a thimble, as you see, Have naught to say to them that with us vie, But pray that God may show us all mercy. Prince Jesus, Lord who reignest in the sky, Grant that to Hell's fierce mouth we draw not nigh : Toward such a place no love or wish have we. Men, mock not us because we hang so high, But pray that God may show us all mercy.

THEODORE WRATISLAW.