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
Publication
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 18, 2025.
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DXXX. Mulier luxuriosa.
Orosius tellis of one þat hight Semiramis, þat was
burnand in lichorie & thristie in blude, made ane ordinans and a
constitucion̛ þat for no maner of reuerens nor inceste
þer sulde no lettyng be, bod at betwix þe fadur &
þe moder & þer childer, als ofte as þaim
lykid̛, it sulde be lefuƚƚ to hafe at do samen or for to
hafe to wyfe or husband̛. So on̛ a tyme sho desyryd hur
awn̛ son̛ to hafe at do with hur, and þer in despite
he slew hur.
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