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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"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 April 29, 2025.

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CCCXCVI.
Inuidia aliqualis eciam in puellis paruis reperitur.

Cesarius tellis how þat in Freseland̛ in a nonrie þer was ij little maydens þat lernyd on̛ þe buke, & euer þai strafe whethur of þaim shulde lern̛ mor̛ þan̛ þe toder. So þe tane of þaim happend̛ to faƚƚ seke, and sho garte caƚƚ þe Priores vnto hur & sayd̛; "Gude ladie! suffre nott my felow to lern̛ vnto I cover of my sekenes, and I saƚƚ

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pray my moder to gif me vjd̛ & þat I saƚƚ giff you & ye do so; ffor I drede þat whils I am̛ seke, þat sho saƚƚ pas me in lernyng, & þat I wolde not at sho did̛, et c̛." And at þis wurde þe priores smylid̛ & hadd̛ grete mervayle of þe damyseƚƚ conseyte. et c̛.

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