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 30, 2025.
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XCIII. Avis. Avium Vanitas siue ludus grauiter punitur.
Petrus Clunacensis [MS. Climacensis.] tellis how som tyme
þer was a knyght þat was in purgatorie, whilk þat
was a gude man̛ & luffid wele for to herber pure folk̘;
bod whils he liffid̛ he had a grete delectacion̛ to layke
with fewlis; and when̛ he was purgid̛ in purgatorie of
aƚƚ his oþer synnys, þat for þis syn̛
þer come evur vnto hym̛ a thyng like a burde, &
gretelie turment hym̛. et c̛.
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