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Eustache Deschamps Quotes

d. 1406 France

Eustache Deschamps (or Eustache Morel; 1346 – c. 1406) was a prolific French poet and satirist. He was the principal disciple of Guillaume de Machaut, and in his turn a great influence on Christine de Pizan, Jean Froissart, and Geoffrey Chaucer.

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The snail will get to Easter just as soon.

High poet, pride of the English squires,
I would be just a nettle in your garden.

Friends, those relations that one makes for one's self.

All strangers love her, will always find her fair,
Because such elegance, such happiness,
Will not be found in any town but this:
Paris is beyond compare.

If all the sky was made of gold leaf, and the air was starred with fine silver, and treasure borne on all the winds, and every drop of sea-water was a florin, and it rained down, morning and evening, riches, goods, honours, jewels, money, till all the people were filled with it, and I stood there naked in such rain and wind, never a drop of it would fall on me.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eustache Deschamps (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.