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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CCCLXXXV.
Infernalis pena est multum acerba.

We rede in 'Libro de Dono Timoris' a grete meracle & a solempne, how som̛ [tym] at Parissℏ, a scolar þat was dead̛, in a garthyn̛ apperid̛ vnto his maister, and shewid̛ hym̛ þe payn̛ of heƚƚ att he was dampnyd̛ vnto in þis maner of wyse; he lete a drope of hys payn̛ faƚƚ of his [After his, maister, erased.] fynger apon̛ his maister hand̛, whilk þat evyn̛ furtℏ-with a grete warke went þurgℏ his hand̛. So þat evur after vnto he dyed̛ þer was ay a hole þurgℏ his hand̛.

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