"Pluto, bid Rabelais welcome to thy shore,
That thou, who art the king of woe and pain,
Whose subjects never learned to laugh before,
May boast a laugher in thy grim domain." [Epitaph for Rabelais]

✒ #JeanAntoinedeBaïf, French poet and Renaissance humanist, #DOTD 19 September 1589. #Poetry