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 22, 2025.
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CXCVI. Consolacio diuina non conceditur admittentibus
alienam.
Cesarius tellis how som tyme þer was a monke in Ceustus
ordur, and he was [MS repeats, was.] a leche & ran̛
þurgℏ þe cuntre ilk day, þat vnnethis he wolde
be att hame at his abbay on̛ hy dayes. So it happend̛
opon̛ a night, in þe solempnyte of our̛ Ladie, as he
stude at matyns
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syngand̛ emangis his felos, he saw our Ladie Saynt [Marie]
com̛ in-to þe where, & broght a boyste fuƚƚ of
lectuarie; & sho putt þerof in-to evur-ilk monk mouthe with
a spone. And when̛ sho come att hym̛ sho said̛;
"þou mysters not of my lectuarie, for þou erte a leche
& takis þine awn̛ comfurtℏ at þe fuƚƚ":
& so he had̛ none. And fro þine furtℏ, bod if he
had bene compellid̛, he wold̛ neuer oute of his abbay, nor
he had neuer after dayntie of bodelie medcyn̛. So þe next
ffeste of our Ladie sho come agayn̛, & did vnto þe
monkis as sho did̛ before; and when̛ sho come att þis
monk̘, sho said̛ vnto hym̛; "Becauce þou hase had
mor̛ comfurtℏ of me þan̛ þou had of
þi lechecrafte or [MS. of of.] of þi medcyns,
þerfor̛ I saƚƚ giff þe of my medcyns." And
when̛ he had tastid̛ þeroff, onone he feld̛ suche
a swetnes, þat euer fro thens furtℏ he was so stable in his
ordur þat he refusid̛ aƚƚ maner of oþer
þing.
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