Early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum / edited by Sidney J.H. Herrtage

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Early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum / edited by Sidney J.H. Herrtage
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Herrtage, Sidney J. H. (Sidney John Hervon)
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London: N. Trübner & Co.
1879
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¶ Declaracio.

Frendes, this Emperour may be said̛ every man that is stronge and myghty, by the vertu of the baptyme. The quene is habundaunce of tho thynges that seketℏ man to slee. ¶ The maide, that was venymed̛, is glotonye and lechery, by the whiche many are slayn̛. ¶ Aristotiƚƚ is reason̛, that seitℏ aƚƚ way ayenst synne. The man, that is dampned̛ by the lawe, is froward̛ man, that aƚƚ way synnetℏ witℏ glotonye and lechery. therfore it is to flee, that we be sobre in mete and [leaf 35, back] drynk̘, that we mowe come to everlastyng mede, the whiche is eternaƚƚ. Amen.

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