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From Introduction to French Poetry: A Dual Language Book, edited by Stanley Applebaum

OVERWHELMED

"Accablé de paresse et de mélancolie,
Je resve dans un lict où je suis fagoté,
Comme un lièvre sans os qui dort dans un pasté,
Ou comme un Dom Quichot en sa morne folie."

"Overwhelmed with sloth and melancholy,
I dream in a bed in which I am trussed up
like a boned hare sleeping in a pie,
Or like Don Quixote in his gloomy madness."

From Le Paresseux, or The Lazy Poet, by Marc-Antoine Girard, sieur de Saint-Amant