¶ Iosep he was a parti wright, [folio 68b:2]
For plogh and haru cuth he dight,
Treen beddes for to make,
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Was he wont for worth to take.
A man com til him and bedd
He suld him mak a treen bedd,
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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 21, 2025.
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þat suld o lengh thre eln haf,
Line 12393
An ioseph comandid til his knaue
þat he him suld sli timber fell,
And he þe mesur can him tell.
þe knaue þat þis timber fett
Line 12397
Heild noght graithli his mett,
Bot ouer scort he broght a tre;
Quen ioseph come it for to se,
And sagh it scort, it moght not gain,
Oft laid dun and tain a-gain;
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Quen iesus him sagh sa bese be
Abute þis ilk vngainand tre,
"Fader," he said, "to me þou scau
þar-of þe tan ende for to drau
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And þou þe toþur, for I hight þe,
We sal it lengh a quantite."
þis tre þai drou sa þaim bi-tuin,
þat son þar was a maistre sene,
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þat first vnquemest was to see
Nu es it quem als it mai be;
þan fard iosep o letting noght,
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Bot forth his wark to will he wroght.