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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DCXXIX.
Petrus monialem absentem sanauit MS. absentem nominauit et sanauit..

We rede also in his Legend̛ how þer was a non̛ in Lombardye þat had þe gutt grevuslie in hur kne, and sho cuthe not be helid̛ with no medcyn̛. And when̛ sho hard teƚƚ at it was bod xiiij day iorney fro hur place vnto Mylayn̛, þat at sho mot not do with hur bodye sho thoght to go in hur mynde. And ilka day sho sayd̛ a hondretℏ patyr noster, and þus sho thoght ilk day to make a iorney. And onone as sho began̛ þus for to go in hur [MS. his.] mynde, sho wex evur bettur and bettyr. And when̛ sho did̛ hur laste day iorney, & in hur mynde went vnto his tombe, kneland on̛ hur kneis as sho had bene at hys tombe in hur prayer, sho said̛ our̛ hur psalter with a grete devocion̛. And be sho had done it, sho felid̛ bod a litle of hur sekenes. And so sho turnyd̛ agayn̛ with hur prayers as sho began̛, and be sho had done aƚƚ hur day iorneys, sho was al hole & sownd̛ as evur sho was.

  • ...Pietas. Pietati conueniunt multa [que dicuntur supra de elemosina, hospitalitate, leprosis et pauperibus From the Harl. MS. ].

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