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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LXXVII. Aqua quasi solida stetit non fluens.
Saynt Gregorie tellis, how at þe Cetie of Terenence [Latin MSS., apud Verenensem urbem, = Verona.] , þe flude þat is callid̛ Artose
bolnyd up so, þat it come vnto þe kurk of Saynt
Zenon̛ þe martyr; and yit, þuf aƚƚ þe
duris wer oppyn̛, it come not
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in; and it sparrid̛ vp þe kurk-duris & þe
wyndows, as it had bene turnyd̛ into a thyng þat had bene
faste as þe stone waƚƚ, vnto so mekuƚƚ þat mekle
peple þat was in þe kurk̘ war̛ sparrid̛ in
with þe watir, & myghte not wyn̛ oute. And yitt
when̛ þai come vnto þe kurk-dure, þai might
take þaim water & drynk̘ þeroff. And þus,
þurgℏ þe gude prayers of þis holie martir,
þe watir was many day as a waƚƚ vnto þaim, &
myght nott entir in-to þat holie place. et c̛.
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