Cursor mundi (The cursur o the world). A Northumbrian poem of the XIVth century in four versions. Ed. by the Rev. Richard Morris ...

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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co.,

1874-93.

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"Cursor mundi (The cursur o the world). A Northumbrian poem of the XIVth century in four versions. Ed. by the Rev. Richard Morris ..." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AJT8128.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2025.

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                    Suet lauerd! wit-vten lese,
                  
                    Mikel was þi tholmodnes
                  
                    In þat ilk time;
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                    þaa felun juus dai and night,
                  
                    Vild þe wit al þair might,
                  
                    Wald þai neuer fine.
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                    þou giue vs lauerd! might and mode,
                  
                    To luue ai þat es sa god,
                  
                    And thinc apon þi pine;
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                    Wit hand and werck, hert and will,
                  
                    [Ay þe to luue bath lude and still]
                  
                    To þe wit hert encline; [folio 142a:1] 
                  
                    If we fall intil il fanding,
                  
                    Defend us fra þe fule thing,
                  
                    þou wat þat we ar þin.
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