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Vsurarius inuite moritur.
Iacobus de Vetriaco tellis how som̛ tyme þer was ane vsurar þat lay in passions of dead̛, and he began̛ to be passyng [hevie] &
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
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- Etienne de, Besançon, d. 1294
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- 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 June 19, 2025.
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sorowfuƚƚ, & prayed his sawle t[o] abyde in þe body & he sulde purvay þerfor̛, and he promytt it gold̛ & syluer & aƚƚ þe delytis of þis werld̛, & els he wold̛ not gyff þer-for̛ þe valour of a sh[red] clowte [Harl. MS. non vnam pictam.] . So at þe laste he saw his sawle wolde not abyde in his bodie bod at hym̛ burde nedelyngis dye, he wex passand wrotℏ & sayd̛ vnto his saule; "Þou sawle! I sulde hafe ordand̛ þe a gude herbarie, bod sen̛ þou erte so fond at þou wiƚƚ not abyde, I beteche þe vnto aƚƚ þe devuls in heƚƚ." And þus he dyed̛ and was berid̛ in heƚƚ.