Three prose versions of the Secreta Secretorum / edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Steele and a glossary by T. Henderson
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Three prose versions of the Secreta Secretorum / edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Steele and a glossary by T. Henderson
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Steele, Robert Benson, b. 1860
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
1898
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"Three prose versions of the Secreta Secretorum / edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Steele and a glossary by T. Henderson." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/SSecr. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2025.
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Of þe chastite of a kyng. Cam. 17m.
nobille emperoure, sett nought thyn hert in lecherie of
women, for þat is the lyf of swyne. Ioy and worshipe
shalt thou noon haue, while thou governyst the aftir that lijf
and aftir the lijf of vnresonable bestis. Dere sone, lecherie is
destruccioun of body abreggyng of lijf and corrupcioun of
vertues; Enemy to conscience, and makith a man oft
femynyne. [folio 10a] In whiche is oft tyme found cowardnes, and þat is the
grettist poynt of repreef that may be vnto Chyvalrie.
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