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 24, 2025.

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LXXIX.
Aspectus debet esse compositus.

Tullius tellis how þat Pericles [MS. paricles.] & Sophocles war made dukis at Athenys. And on̛ a tyme, when̛ þai went to speke to-gedur in a cowncelhows of suche thyngis as was necessarie vnto þe cetie, þer happend̛ a fayr yong man̛ to go be a wyndow at þai sett enence. And þis Sophocles spak vnto Pericles [MS. pericℏ.] & sayd̛; "Se! yonder gois a fayr yong man̛!" And he ansswerd̛ hym̛ agayn̛ & said̛; "Sur, it semys a man̛ of cownceƚƚ, not alonelie to kepe stiƚƚ his handis & his tong, bod also for to kepe his een̛ contynent from̛ aƚƚ maner of ydiƚƚ sightis in tyme þat he is at conceƚƚ."

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