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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: furnished us with the matter of a grisly winter's tale?
At Christmas-time in 1456, readers of Villon will remember
that he was engaged on the SMALL TESTAMENT. About the same
period, CIRCA FESTUM NATIVITATIS DOMINI, he took part in a
memorable supper at the Mule Tavern, in front of the Church
of St. Mathurin. Tabary, who seems to have been very much
Villon's creature, had ordered the supper in the course of
the afternoon. He was a man who had had troubles in his time
and languished in the Bishop of Paris's prisons on a
suspicion of picking locks; confiding, convivial, not very
astute - who had copied out a whole improper romance with his
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