"Le Paresseux" de Marc Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant

Easy French Poetry (French Today) by Camille Chevalier-Karfis

This poem in middle French, from the 17th century, is an hymn to indolence. Saint-Amant was a libertin poet, who enjoyed all the pleasures of life, liked to eat, drink, smoke and rest, as depicted in this poem.