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 17, 2025.
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DLXXXIII. Oculus est inimicus cordis.
We rede in 'Gestis Petri Clareuallis' how on̛ a tyme,
when̛ he had þurgℏ raklesnes loste ane of his
een̛ and was made monoculus, afterwarde in his sporte he wolde
say he had loste ane of his enmys, & at he was mor̛
dredefuƚƚ for þat ee þat was lefte hym̛
þan̛ for þe los [MS. repeats, of þe los.] of þe
toder ee.
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