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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DCXCIV. Sacramentum altaris devote celebranti quandoque
apparet in specie pueri.
Cesarius tellis how som tyme þer was a monke of Ceustus
ordur, and vppon̛ þe yole day he sayd mes at a privay
altar̛ with grete
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deuocion̛ and wepyng of teris. And when̛ he had made his
consecracion̛, he cuthe not se þe sacrament in kynd̛ of
bread̛, bod in lyknes of a yong childe þat was passand̛
fayr. & he keste suche a luff þer-vnto & was so gretele
delytid̛ with þe fayrnes þer-of, at he halsid̛ it and
kissid̛ it with a grete dilectation̛. So at þe laste he was
ferd̛ at þai at stude aboute hym̛ sulde thynke lang, and he
layd̛ it down̛ on̛ þe corprax, & he procedid̛ in
þe wurdis of þe sacrament after þe form̛. And it
turned̛ agayn̛ into þe substance of þe sacrament, and
þan̛ with grete ioy he performyd̛ & fulfyllid̛
furtℏ his mes.
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