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A warrant is out for the arrest of Francois Villon.  The warrant is about to be executed.”\n\t\t030\t“It is late afternoon.  Outside a wine shop, Francois Villon is writing a verse…”\n\t\t045\t“Et mourut Paris et Helaine…”  (Paris dies and Helen dies…)\n\t\t070\t“Dictes moy ou, n’en quel pays…”  (Tell me in what land…)  (Where are the snows of yesteryear…)\n\t\t106\t“Mort j’appelle de ta rigeur…”  (Death, I appeal against your hardness…)  (Ythier)\n\t\t130\t“Je plains le temps de ma jeunesse…”  (I regret the time of my youth…)\n\t\t157\t“Advis m’est que j’oy regret…”  (It seemed I heard regretting…)\n\t\t159\t“Ha viellesse felonne et fiere…”  (Ah, traitorous, fierce old age…)  (Heaulmiere)\n\t\t179\t“Qu’est devenu ce front poly…”  (Where is the smooth brow…)\n\t\t212\t“Faulse beaute…”  (False beauty which costs me dear…)  (The gallant)\n\t\t230\t“Item, m’amour, ma chiere Rose…”  (Item: to my love, my dear Rose…)  (Villon)\n\t\t238\t“Or y pensez, belle Gantiere…” (So think it over, pretty Gantiere… )  (Heaulmiere)\n\t\t249\t“…Jehanneton le Chapperonniere…” (Joan the bonnet-maker…)  (Heaulmiere and Beauty)\n\t\t261\t“Filles, vueillez vous entremettre…”  (Girls, for your own sake…)  (Villon’s mother)\n\t\t277\t“Dame du ciel, regent terrienne…”  (Lady of Heaven, Earth’s regent…)\n\t\t328\t“Vergine pucelle roiauz…”  (Maiden and virgin loyal…)  (Priest)\n\t\t362\t“Suyvez beaute, courez au festes…”  (Pursue ye beauty, run to feasting…)  “Aimez, aimez tant que voudrez…”  (Love light, desire all that ye will…)  (Priest)\n\t\t368\tLapse in the sound – to 377\n\t\t377\t“Villon and the others watch him ironically…”\n\t\t385\t“Se j’ayme et sers la belle de bon hart…”  (If I love and serve my pretty lady gladly…)  (Bozo the brother keeper)\n\t\t439\t“Je regnie amours et despite…”  (All loves I renounce and cure…)  (Gallant)\n\t\t466\t“Pere Noe qui plantastes la vigne…”  (Father Noah who planted the vine…)\n\t\t554\tThe scene changes… near Paris on a deserted highway…\n\t\t574\t“Freres humains qui apre nous vivez…”  (Brothers who live on after us…)  (Chorus of the hanged)\n\t\t672\t“Icy ce clost le testament…”  (Here ends the testament…)  (Halberdiers)"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Ezra Pound Le Testement de Villon Produced by R. 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