[The Resurrection of Simeon's two Sons.]
[I]oseph of arimathi vp-ras
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And said till anna and cayphas,
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.
Pages
Page 1021
"ȝu thinc selcuth wid right i-wiss
Of iesu vpras, for-soth it es,
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For ȝe ne wold it neuer trou,
þat he was god self and iesu.
vp-resin he es, dute es þair nane,
Bot he es noght vpresen allane,
Line 17788
For sum men of þis ilke kith
Es resen vp forsoth him with
þat sene was in ierusalem.
Line 17791
Of ald symeon barntem
He had suns tua, bot lang es gane,
Siþen þai war dede and laid vnderstane,
All war we at þar ending day,
Line 17795
And helped þaim in erd to lay.
Gas, seis nu, for þe hali-dome,
And ȝe sal find þair tumbes tume;
In mi cite of arimathi,
Line 17799
þar er þai walkand witterli.
þar men seis þaim in þat tune,
In kneling state and orisune;
Ai vmquile men heris þaim cri,
Line 17803
Bot wid nane speke þai of þat bi.
Ga we þan fulsumli þeder, [folio 119b:1]
And fand we forto bring þaim heder,
And sal we þaim wid coniuring,
Ger tell vs of þis vp-rising."
Line 17808
[Q]uen þai herd þis word was said,
Smartli þeder þai þaim graid,
Bath cayphas and alsua anna,
Ioseph, nicodeme, and ma,
Line 17812
And ane þat hight gamaliel,
Of him es noght bot treuth to tell.
þai sau þa tumbes, tome war þai,
Til arimathi þai went þair wai,
Line 17816
On þir tua breþer þai hitt in hij,
þai fand þaim in þair beddis lij.
Page 1023
þai halsid þaim wid sueteli sare,
wid kissing worschip þai þaim bare;
To ierusalem wid mekil drede
Line 17821
In synagog þai gun þaim lede.
Quen þai in-to þat hus war lede,
Sone was in hand þe lau þaim bedd,
Bath thoru þe lau of moysi,
Line 17825
And thoru þair godd adonay,
þair mekil god of israel,
þai coniured þaim na soth to hele.
þai said, "he þat has raised ȝuu,
Sais vs nu if it was iesu;
Line 17830
And tell vs all, widvten strijf,
Hu ȝe war raised fra dede to lijf."
[Q]uen carius and lenthius
was coniured of þir iuus þus,
Line 17834
wid all þair fless þai quoke onane,
And wid þair hertis gun þai grame.
Till heuen þai lifted þair eien brad,
And on þair [[MS. þari]] tunges þe takni[n]g made
wid þair fingres all of þe crois,
And alsone spac wid manes vois.
Line 17840
"Lauerd," þai said, (þat hei drigh|tin
þan [[MS. þai]] bad þai giue þaim parchemine)
[folio 119b:2] "We sal ȝu write and na-thing lij
Quat we herd and sau wid ei."
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Sundri þai þaim fra oþer sate,
And aiþer bi him-seluen wrate,
Bot þogh þai sundri sattand were,
was na-thing in þair saus sere.
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