[folio 10b:1] De corrupcione terre per peccatum
¶ Quen Iareth, þat ȝe herd me neuen,
had eild of hundret wynturs seuen,
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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"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 20, 2024.
Pages
Page 98
Mikel malice was first in man
Line 1555
Bot neuer forwit sua mikel as þan;
In adam time was wrang i-nogh,
Bot þis tim wex wel mare wogh,
Namlik amang kaym kyn
Line 1559
þat lited þam noght bot in sin.
[folio 10b:1] Al thoght þam wel þat was þair wil,
And þat was heldand al til il,
Line 1562
On al thinges was mare þair thoght,
þan was on drightin þat al wroght;
Sua blind þai war in þair insight,
þat reckining cuth þai nan o right;
Al þair luf þai gaue to lust,
þai did þair sauls all to rust;
Line 1568
O sothfastnes, als sais te sau,
þai left þe lede of þar lau,
þat es o settnes and o kind,
Wit-vtun mensk þai ar vn-mind;
Line 1572
Al wex wik, bath an and oþer,
þe toþers wijf lai be þe broþer;
þair cursnes was noght vnkid,
þe lau o kind þai sua for-did.
Line 1576
Wimmen þai forced a-mang þaim,
Was nan þam moght bring to reclaim;
þe scham, þe sin þat þan was vte
At tel war lang to sett aboute.
Line 1580
þe find wend witurli wit þis
þat al man kind quitli war his;
Of al and al for-soth he wend
Man kind war til his wil be kend,
Sua forþerli þat god ne might
Line 1585
Bring man in-to state o right,
In-to þe stat þat he had tint;
Bot god had oþer-gates mint.
Line 1588
Of his handwark al for to don,
Wald he noght it war sua fordon,
Page 100
For-þi in forme of iugement
He thoght a neu wengaunce to sent,
Hijs faas to bring al o lijf,
Line 1593
And waass þat wrang, þat was sa rijf,
Wit his grace to giue [t]ham grith
þat he suld restore man-kind with.
Quen he beheld þat foly strang
Line 1597
Drightun þat biden had sa lang,
þof he was wrath it was na wrang,
þis word out of his hert sprang
Line 1600
And was þe word þat he said þan:—
"Me reus þat euer made i man."
Bot ilk man þat þis word heris,
Wat noght al þat þar to feris;
Line 1604
þis word was als a propheci,
þat for-said was bi his merci,
Of þe reut he siþen kydd, [folio 10b:2]
Quen he to pin him-selfen did
Line 1608
For his choslinges on rod-tre;
Quat was his reut þan all mai see
Bi þis word þat þan was said;
His merci had he ferr purweid
Line 1612
to þaim þat wat on his parti,
for to bring þam mightili
Als his auen kyngrik til,
His wiþerwins al forto spil,
Line 1616
Ogains wam he was sa wrath;
And be his right hand he suar his ath
þat þai suld all thole schammes deid,
At sauue þe gode to giue his red
Line 1620
þat all þe feluns war for-lorn,
þe gode allan suld be for-born,
Als it in noe flod be-fell,
Quare of i sal yow siþen tell.
Line 1624
Bot first a tre, ar .i. bigin,
I sal sette hire of adam kin.
