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 May 29, 2025.
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DCCIX. Silencium tenere est assu[esc]endum.
We rede in 'Vitis Patrum' how abbot Agothen̛ bare in his
mouthe iij yere a stone vn[to] he was lernyd̛ to be styƚƚ
and sylent. Also þer was a noder bruder þat when̛ he
entred into religion̛ sayd̛ vnto hym̛ selfe; "Thow
& ane ass be bothe as one; ffor as ane as is betin & wyƚƚ
not speke, and suffers wrang and ansswers not, right so saƚƚ
þou bee; ffor & þou war putt fro þe burde,
þou sulde not ansswer."
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