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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CCXCIII.
Elemosina remuneratur in futuro.

Saynt Gregorie tellis how som̛ tyme þer was a shomaker þat wold̛ wurk aƚƚ þe weke day, & on̛ þe Satturday [Latin MSS. die Sabbato.] he wold̛ evur go vnto þe kurk̘. So þer was a gude halie man̛, & he saw be revelacion̛ of þis man̛, þat a howce was byggid̛ for hym̛ in hevyn̛, and þai at bigid̛ it wroght alway on̛ þe Satturday; and he spyrrid̛ of þat mans life, & he fand̛ how þat he wroght aƚƚ þe weke day, & what at he mott safe ouer his meatt & his clothe, he wold̛ go vnto þe kurk̘ vpon̛ þe Satturday & giff it vnto pure men̛.

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