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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CCCCV.
Iracundus eciam visibiliter punitur.

Cesarius tellis how som tyme þer was a riche mans doghter, and sho was so angrie þat whare at evur sho war̛ sho made stryfe & debate; & yit sho lete hur selfe holye & sho mott nott restrene hur tong. So at þe laste hur happend to dye, & þai berid hur in þe kurk̘ porche. And on̛ þe morn̛ when̛ folk come vnto þe kurk̘, þai saw reke com̛ oute of hur grafe, & þai had merveƚƚ þer-of, & was ferd̛ & opynde it, & keste oute þe erthe. & þai fande þe vpper halfe of hur bodie to hur naviƚƚ burnyd̛ clene away with fyre, & þe lawer partie lay hale, in betokynyng þat sho was a clene maydyn̛ bod yit sho was passand̛ angrie.

  • ...Irreuerencia facta sanctis punitur. Supra de blasfemia, iij.

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