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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Philippe Desportes (1546–1606)

Desportes, Philippe (dā-port’). A French poet (1546–1606); born at Chartres. Besides his numerous beautiful and musical elegies and sonnets (457 of these), he made a translation of the ‘Psalms,’ and published a volume of ‘Christian Prayers and Meditations’ in prose.