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known as "Captain Lasphrise". A French poet; born at Amboise, 1555; died about 1605. In 1590 he published a volume of stanzas, songs, elegies, epigrams, satires, epitaphs, etc. His verses are graceful and enlivened with wit, but many of them are licentious. Toward the end of his life he composed poems on religious subjects; e.g., a versified rendering of the "Canticle of the Three Children in the Fiery Furnace", the "Magnificat", the "Lord's Prayer", etc.