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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CCCLVI. Histrionibus nichil est dandum.
We rede in 'Gestis Francorum' how Philypp̛, at som tyme was
kyng of France, on̛ a tyme when̛ he saw mynstrallis &
iogullurs hafe gay clothyng & grete giftis giffen̛ þaim
oute of courte; and he promysid̛ with aƚƚ his harte,
þat als lang as he liffid̛, þer sulde no
mynstraƚƚ were no clothe at langed̛ vnto his bakk̘.
For, he said̛, hym̛ had levur clethe Criste þer-with,
or pure men̛, þan̛ for to giff þaim to
mynstrallis. "For," he said̛, "it was no noder to giff to
mynstrals bod for to offyr to fendis."
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