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 25, 2025.

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DCCXXXVII.
Superbia. Superbus nec in vita nec in morte parem vult habere.

Commestor tellis how when̛ Alexander turnyd̛ agayn̛ into Babylon̛ & his suster had poysond hym̛, he mot not speke, & herefor he wrate his testament his awn̛ hand̛. And he wold̛ not

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bewitt hys kyngdom̛ hale vnto no a man̛, þat none of þaim at come after hym̛ sulde be lyke hym̛ in power, bod he made successurs of his kyngdom̛ xij yong men̛ þat had bene in his felowshup̛ fro barn̛ little.

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