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 12, 2025.

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XXVI.
Abstinencia indiscreta est nimis periculosa.

Cesarius tellis how a devuƚƚ in liknes of ane aungeƚƚ apperid̛ evur-ilk day vnto a monke when̛ he was at his meate, & shewid̛ hym̛ alway halfe a lafe, & bad hym̛ no mor̛ bod þat. And þe monke did evur as he bad hym̛, & with-in a shorte while he wex passand wayke. And þer feƚƚ a swyngyllyng in his hede þat he wex fonde with, & mad as a guse; & so he contynued vnto he deyid̛. et c̛.

  • ... Abstinencia a carnibus est necessaria. Infra de gula.

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