Alphabet of tales : an English 15th century translation of the Alphabetum narrationum of Etienne de Besançon, from Additional MS. 25,719 of the British Museum / by Etienne de Besançon
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Alphabet of tales : an English 15th century translation of the Alphabetum narrationum of Etienne de Besançon, from Additional MS. 25,719 of the British Museum / by Etienne de Besançon
Author
Etienne de, Besançon, d. 1294
Editor
Banks, Mary Macleod
Publication
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., Ltd.
1904, 1905
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"Alphabet of tales : an English 15th century translation of the Alphabetum narrationum of Etienne de Besançon, from Additional MS. 25,719 of the British Museum / by Etienne de Besançon." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AlphTales. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2025.
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XCVIII. Balliuus hic iniuste iudicans alibi
iudicabitur.
We rede in 'Libro de Dono Timoris,' how þat [MS. þan.] on̛ a tyme a philosophur, when̛ he saw a
thief led to be hanged̛ with a baillay, this philosophur
said̛; "Lo! þe gretter thieff ledis þe les thieff to
hangyng." And so it happens oft sithes now-of-dayes; ffor commonlie
þe lytle þieff is hanged, Bod his resettyr & his
mayntynnuer is savid̛. et c̛.
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