Epitaph
Scarron wrote his own epitaph, which makes reference to the terrible physical pain he suffered during the last years of his life:
- Celui qui cy maintenant dort
- Fit plus de pitié que d'envie,
- Et souffrit mille fois la mort
- Avant que de perdre la vie.
- Passant, ne fais ici de bruit
- Garde bien que tu ne l'éveilles :
- Car voici la première nuit
- Que le pauvre Scarron sommeille.
- "He who sleeps here now
- Deserved more pity than envy,
- And suffered death a thousand times
- Before losing his life.
- As you pass, do not make noise here
- Be careful not to wake him
- Because this is the first night
- That poor Scarron slumbers."
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