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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: seem the incongruity, it may have pleased Charles to own a
sort of kinship with ragged singers, and whimsically regard
himself as one of the confraternity of poets. And he would
have other grounds of intimacy with Villon. A room looking
upon Windsor gardens is a different matter from Villon's
dungeon at Meun; yet each in his own degree had been tried in
prison. Each in his own way also, loved the good things of
this life and the service of the Muses. But the same gulf
that separated Burns from his Edinburgh patrons would
separate the singer of Bohemia from the rhyming duke. And it
is hard to imagine that Villon's training amongst thieves,
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