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 April 27, 2025.
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CCCCXXVIII. Laborare debet monachus vt cogitaciones malas
euadat.
Paulus Heremita, þat was a moste provid man̛ emang alde
fadurs, on̛ a tyme when̛ he liffid̛ in wildrenes, &
had bod esi fude bod of þe frute of þe palm̛ tre, and
if he wroght oght with his handis no man̛ wolde giff hym̛
noght þerfor̛ becauce he was so fer fro townys & no
man̛ come nere hym̛, becauce he wold̛ somwyse be
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occupyed̛ ilka day, he wald̛ gaddur samen a grete meneya of
palmelevis & bryn̛ þaim, in exsample þat he did
som̛ bodele labur for his sustentacion̛; provand be
þatt a monk myght not be in a place with-oute laboryng with his
handis, or els he mot not esskape many iƚƚ thoghtis &
vnthrifti. et c̛.
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