CCCCXLVI.
Loquentes multum verba stulta puniuntur.
Som tyme þer was a non̛ þat was chaste of bodie, bod sho wold̛ nott restrene hur tong fro fowle langwage; so hur happend to dy
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
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- 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 May 12, 2025.
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CCCCXLVI.
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& be berid in þe kurk̘. And opon̛ þe night after, he þat kepid þe kurk̘ saw hur broght befor̛ ane altar & cut in sonder evyn̛ be þe myddeste. & þe [tone] parte was burnyd̛ and þe toder parte putt in þe grafe agayn̛; and on̛ þe morn̛ þai mot se þe prynte apon̛ þe merbyƚƚ stonys, like as a woman̛ had bene bodelie burnyd̛ þer.
- ...Loquendum non est indifferenter coram omnibus. Supra de augurio MS. augurrio. .
- ...Loqui non debemus de defectibus aliorum. Supra de iudicio, iij MS. i. .
- ...Loquendum est semper caute et non est demon denominandus. Supra de demone.