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A TALE OF FARGEAU.

My sins are many, I humbly own;

But amid my arsons and murders and rapes,

I never have done a

Ghost harm, 'pon my honor,

And I think that you might let a fellow alone.

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"If so be that you 'll disappear

And take your terrible forms away,

A wondrous beautiful cloister I 'll rear;

While, furthermore,

From my plundered store,

One half to the holy Church I 'll pay."

The sole reply to this generous offer

Was: "Give us nor gold nor precious stones;

Our vengeance cannot be bribed, thou scoffer.

Murderer, die,

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