CXLII.
Celari debent defectus amicorum.
Ruffinus tellis þat on̛ a tyme when̛ þe Emperour Constantyne went into a place whar þer was gaderd̛ many brethyr samen at
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
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- Etienne de, Besançon, d. 1294
- Editor
- Banks, Mary Macleod
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- 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 22, 2025.
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CXLII.
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a cownceƚƚ, he fand̛ at þai had emang þaim many debatis & stryvis; and he tuke of þaim a byƚƚ of aƚƚ þer debatis & þer stryvis, & putt it in his bosom̛, & when̛ he come home he burnyd it, at neuer man̛ suld̛ se it after, as prestis sulde do with confession̛. And̛ afterwerd̛ he sayd̛, when̛ þai askid̛ hym̛ whi he had done so, in þis maner̛ of wise; " Si vidissem sacerdotem vel aliquem eorum qui monachali habitu sunt amicti, et c̛. And I saw a preste or a monke doyng syn̛, rather I suld̛ hide hym̛ with my mantyƚƚ, þan̛ disclander hym̛." et c̛.