Leon yode þam als Imid,
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And pardes als þe dragons did;
Bifor maria and ioseph yede
In right wai þam for to lede.
Quen maria sagh þaa bestes dute, [[read lute]]
First sco was gretli in dute,
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 20, 2024.
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Page 668
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Til iesus loked on hir blith,
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And dridnes bad hir nan to kith.
"Moder," he said, "haf þou na ward,
Noþer o leon ne o lepard,
For þai com noght vs harm to do,
Bot þair seruis at serue vs to."
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Bath ass and ox at wit þam war, [folio 64b:2]
And bestes þat þair harnais bar,
Vte o ierusalem þair kyth,
þe leons mekli yod þam wit,
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Wit-vten harm or ox or ass,
Or ani best þat wit þam was.
þan was fulfild þe propheci
þat said was thoru Ieremi,
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"Wolf and weþer, leon and ox,
Sal comen samen, and lamb and fox."
[ [[from Laud MS. 416]] With-outyn harme of eny tene
That then shalbe hem bytwene]
A wain þai had þair gere wit-in
þat draun was wit oxen tuin,
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Forth þair wai þai went fra þan,
Wit-vten kithing of ani man.
¶ Maria forth þam foluand rade,
Gret hete in wildernes it made,
O gret trauail sco was weri,
A palme tre sco sagh hir bi,
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"Ioseph," sco said, "fain wald i rest,
Vnder þis tre me thinc wer best,"
"Gladli," said he, "þat wil resun;"
Son he stert and tok hir dun.
Quen sco had sitten þar a wei
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Sco bihild a tre was hei,
And sagh a frut þar-on hingand,
Man clepes palmes in þat land,
"Ioseph," sco said, "fain wald i ete
O þis frut if I moght gete."
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"Maria me thinc ferli o þe,
þat se þe gret heght o þis tre,
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þe frut hu suld man reche vnto
þat man his hand mai to nan do?
Bot i site for an oþer thing,
þat we o water has nu wanting,
Vr water purueance es gan,
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And in þis wildernes es nan,
Naþer for vs ne for vr fee,
Ne for nan of vr meine."