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 June 17, 2025.
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D. Monachus debet se humiliter habere et neminem
iudicare.
We rede in 'Vitis Patrum' how one þat hight Iosepℏ
axked̛ abbott Pastor how he sulde make hym̛ selfe a monke.
And he ansswerd̛ hym̛ agayn̛ & said; "And þou
wiƚƚ fynd̛ riste bothe in þis werld̛ & in
þe toder werld̛, in euer-ilk cauce say vnto þi selfe,
'whatt am̛ I?' And þan̛ shaƚƚ þou nevur
deam̛ no man̛."
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