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 May 11, 2025.

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The Epistille that Alexandre sent to Aristotille the gret clerke. Cam. primum.

o Doctoure of gret rightwisnes and nobille gouernour, we signifie to thi gret wisdom that we haue founden in the lond of Perce many men the which habound gretly in wisdome, resoun, and vndirstondyng, welle sotille and perceyvyng, and hope forto haue lordship aboue alle othir, and forto gete Rewmes. Wherfore we purpose to putt hem alle to deth. But only thou certifie vs bi thi lettres, as thou semest most spedfulle vnto vs, for therbi wolle we worche, and noon othir wise.