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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DCCLXXXIII. Votum de ingressu religionis eciam ab infirmitate
corporali sanat.
Cesarius tellis how som tyme þer was a knyght þat
hight Lodowycus, & he ffeƚƚ seke bown̛ to dye, &
with lefe of his wyfe he made a vow þat he sulde be a monk of
Ceustus ordur & he mott covir of his seknes. And þat done,
onone withouten̛ swete or blude or hostyng, or any oþer
þing, at aƚƚ men̛ marveld̛ off, agayns þe
kynd of his infirmyte he becan̛ to covir & was hale
furtℏwith.
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