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 May 11, 2025.
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DCLXVIII. Rapina omnis fugienda est et maxime a principe vel
prelato.
Seutonius tellis how on̛ a tyme, when̛ he had
exhortid̛ Tyberius Cesar þat he sulde eke þe tributis
of his regions, the emperour ansswerd̛ agayn̛ & sayd;
"Nay, ffor it longis vnto a gude hurd̛ to clypp his shepe, &
not aƚƚ at ons for to worow itt."
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