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 May 13, 2025.

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CCLXXI.
Diligit canis vsque ad mortem.

Solinus tellis how þat when̛ Iasalicius [MS. Harl. Infelicio interfecto. MS. Arund. Iasolicio interfecto.] was slayn̛, his hond̛ lay by hym̛ & wold̛ neuer eate meate after. And þe kyng saw þat, & garte make a grete fyre, & caste þe dead̛ bodie in; & onone þe hunde folowid̛ into þe fyre, and gruchid̛ not to be burnyd̛ with his maister bodie.

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