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Valet of the Bed-chamber to King Francis I., and was one of the greatest French poets of his time; in fact, he gave his name to a new school of poetry,--
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Marotique. He had tried his hand at an immense variety of profane verse, he had written ballades, chansons, pastourelles, vers équivoques, eclogues, laments, complaints, epitaphs, chants-royals, blasons, contreblasons, dizains, huitains, envois; he had been, Warton says,
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and yet, in spite of his well-known ingenuity and versatility, it occasioned much surprise and even amusement when it was known that the gay poet had written psalm-songs and proposed to substitute them for the love-songs of the French court. I doubt if Marot thought very deeply of the religious influence of his new songs, in spite of Mr. Morley's belief in the versifier's serious intent. He was doubtless interested and perhaps somewhat infected by
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Lutheranisme,
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I am not a Lutherist Nor Zuinglian and less Anabaptist, I am of God through his son Jesus Christ. I am one who has many works devised From which none could extract a single line Opposing itself to the law divine.
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Luther did not come down from heaven for me Luther was not nailed to the cross to be My Saviour; for my sins to suffer shame, And I was not baptized in Luther's name. The name I was baptized in sounds so sweet That at the sound of it, what we entreat The Eternal Father gives.