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The breasts all shrivelled up and gone;
The haunches like the paps withdrawn.

— François Villon

Mammelles, quoy! toutes retraictes;
Telles les hanches que les tettes.

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Source: Les Regrets de la belle Heaulmière ("The Complaint of the Fair Helm-maker Grown Old"), translated by John Payne, The Poems of Master Francis Villon of Paris (1878), p. 48
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