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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XXXIV.
Adulator non est audiendus.

We rede how som̛ tyme a man̛ þat hyght Seutonius, þat was a grete lord̛, on̛ a tyme was at a gamen in þe Emperour presens, and þe Emperour commond̛ & talkyd̛ with his meneyay; & emang aƚƚ his oþer saying, he sayd̛ þat þis Seutonius was a gude lorde, and ane evyn̛ & a iuste. And his meneya was glad þerof þat [After þat, his mene, erased.] þe Emperour commandid̛ þer maister, & callid̛ hym̛ lord̛. And on̛ þe morn̛ when̛ he was commen̛ home vnto his place, þo þat callid̛ hym̛ lord̛, he was passand wrothe with þaim, & made a decre & bad þaim neuer caƚƚ hym̛ lord̛, for, he said̛, þer was no lord̛ bod one.

  • ... Adulator hominem supra se MS. repeats, supra se. frequenter per mendacium extollit. Infra de Augurrio. iijo.

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