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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CCCXLIII. Gracie agende sunt deo de omnibus que
videntur.
Helinandus [MS. Heliandus.] tellis how som tyme þer
was a freer, & he said he saw neuer þat þing bod he
tuke a comfurtℏ with þe sight þeroff. And a noder
askid̛ hym̛ what comfurtℏ he had̛ when̛ he
saw a fowle tade? And̛ he said̛; "yis, als oft sithes as I
se a tade, I vmbethynk me, & thankis God̛ þat gaf me so
fayr a form̛, & so fayr a liknes as I hafe, lyke His
awn̛ selfe, whar̛ þat He myght, and He had wald̛,
hafe made me als fowle & als vglie as a tode is."
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