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 17, 2025.
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Of the mercy of a kynge. Capitulum xiiijm.
alexandyr, ofte-tymes y haue sayde the and consaillid̛, And
ytte agayne y say and the amoneste, that the blode of a
man gladly ne do noght Shede, for that longyth to god
that knoweth the thoghtes and priueteis of hertis, wherof Sayth
the vyse clerke Hermogynes; Whan a man sleyth anothyr the
Vertues of hewyn Shal crye to god and Say, "Lorde, lorde, thy [folio 15L]
Servant wel be lyke the," And yf the slaght be vnryghtfull, god
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shal answere, "Who-So sleyth, he shal be slayne: the
vengeaunce longyth to me, and y shal thereof vengeaunce take." For
the dethe of a man that giltles is Slawe Shal cry the vertues of
hewyn, Into the tyme that vengeaunce thereof be take.
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