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
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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DCXCII.
Sacerdoti curato imputantur defectus subditorum.

Cesarius tellis how som̛ tyme þer was a preste, a curatt, at gaff hym̛ aƚƚ vnto etyng & drynkyng and lichorye. And he was necligent anent̘ his parishyng, and gaff no hede vnto þer sawlis. So hym̛ happend̛ to dye, & when̛ he was dead̛ his parisshyns at war dead̛ vndernethe his cure, ilkone of þaim gat a grete stane,

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and accusid̛ hym̛ vnto heƚƚ, and said̛ vnto hym̛; "We wer commytt vnto þe and þou haste forgettyn̛ vs; ffor when̛ we synd̛, þou nowder reuokid̛ with nowder gude wurde nor exsample, and þerfor̛ þou ert cauce of owr̛ dampnacion̛." And with þat þai keste aƚƚ þe stanys on̛ hym̛, and he feƚƚ into þe pitt of heƚƚ and neuer efter apperyd̛.

  • ...Sacerdos malus tempestate perit. Infra de tempestate.
  • ...Sacerdotis MS. Sacerdos. concubina punitur. Supra de luxuria, iij.

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