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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CCCCLIII.
Luporum more currit et vlulat aliquis.

Petrus de Lombardia tellis & says; "I saw ans a yong man̛ þat was born̛ in Fraunce & broght vnto he was at mans age [Harl. MS. educatus vt more luporum semper ad manus et pedes sciuit currere atque ululare.] , and he cuthe gang on̛ his fete & his handis as a beste and crye like a wulfe."

  • ...Lupanari expositam virginem custodiuit deus. Infra de virgine.

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