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
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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 June 19, 2025.
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CLXXXV. Confusio orta de peccato perpetrato aliquando est
occasio boni.
Cesarius tellis how on̛ a tyme a yong man̛ gatt a
non̛ with child̛; and̛ he was so confusid̛
þer-with, & so ferd̛ at he sulde be descried̛
þat he had done suche a truspas, & no man̛ had
hym̛ in suspecion̛, þat he went vnto ane abbay of a
strayte ordur & made hym̛ a man̛ of religion, &
þer abade in grete devocion̛ & prayer aƚƚ his
life. et c̛.
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