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 May 14, 2025.

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The answer of the same Epistille ayen to Alexandre. Capitulum ijm.

and thou mowe chaunge the eyre of the lond, and the watris, and the ordinaunce of Citees, than do as thou hast purposid, and ellis nought. But gouerne þat [folio 3a] pepille in goodnes, and enhaunce them in thi benygnyte. And if thou do thus, y truste in god, alle they shulle be þi meeke subiectis, And obeye alle thi likyngis and comaundementis. And for the loue that they shalle haue to þe, thou shalt regne on them pesibly with gret victory. And whan Alexandre had red this epistille, he did aftir the counselle of them of Perce, and found hem more lowly and obeyshaunt to him than any othir were.

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