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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DCCLXXXIX.
Vsurarius et si a peccato non abstinet, saltem debet habere MS. habet. intencionem restituendi.

Iacobus de Vetriaco tellis how som̛ tyme þer was a riche man̛, and þuf aƚƚ he had mekuƚƚ gude, nevur-þe-les to gett more gude he lete his money to hyre. Bod þe increce þerof he durste nott turn̛ into his awn̛ vse, bod layd̛ it oparte at he mott restore it agayn̛ at his dead̛-day, and so he did̛.

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