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 16, 2024.

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[The Ascension of Christ.]

                  
                    Quen iesus had his spell fulfild, [folio 125b:2] 
                  
                    And teched þaim all þat he wild,
                  
                    Forth he led þat megne suete,
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                    Oup-on þe munt of oliuete
                  
                    In licnes of processiun,
                  
                    And gaf þaim all his benisoun:
                  
                    And wid his auen propre might,
                  
                    He stei vp in þair aller sight,
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                    A cloud þat þar again him light
                  
                    Bitaght him till his angelis bright;
                  
                    Quen þai þe sight of him had tint,
                  
                    ȝeit þai biheld widvten stint,
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                    And quilis þai biheld sua in lite,
                  
                    Biside þaim stod tua men in quite,
                  
                    And said, "god men of galile,
                  
                    Quar-apon sua wonder ȝe?
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                    ȝe wonder sua apon iesu,
                  
                    Bot right als he es tane fra ȝu,

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                    He sal cum at anoþer tide,
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                    For thar ȝe naght him nu abide.
                  
                    Bot þat come sal be wonder kene,
                  
                    Quen he sal deme vs all bidene."
                  
                    [A]pon þat hal[i] thures-day
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                    þan went iesu to graith vr way,
                  
                    wid fadir his to graith vr in,
                  
                    þat nu es of his auen kin,
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                    In heuen blis, þat es þe soth;
                  
                    If we will folu right þe slotht,
                  
                    His kin ne will he noght forsake,
                  
                    Bot it be thoru vr auen make,
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                    Bot god forbede þat it sua weind,
                  
                    þat we vr fa make of vr freind;
                  
                    Ful wele aue we to luue hi[m] þan,
                  
                    Qua luues him noght, he es na man.
                  
                    Na certes, if i þe soth sal rede,
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                    Na man es he dos no manhede,
                  
                    And of vnmanhede es it draun,
                  
                    To be again gode dede vnknaun.
                  
                    vr manhede bu we þan him vnto, [folio 126a:1] 
                  
                    In all þe gode þat we mai do,
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                    For ferist in erd he here it fett,
                  
                    And nu he has in heuen it bett.
                  
                    Sua hei vtouer all creatur,
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                    Quat hert mai thinc of sli onur,
                  
                    þat he till vs has done of blis,
                  
                    þat cupplid þus vr kind to his.
                  
                    And sett apon his fadir right hand,
                  
                    þat mighti god all weilldand.
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                    þat es a selcuth thing to neuen,
                  
                    For þar es erd heier þan heuen.
                  
                    þar iesus, god and man wid-all,
                  
                    Sua hei es sett in heuen hall.
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                    Quat ellis bot erd es vr manhede,
                  
                    þat es made ane wid his godhede?

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                    He send vs nu þat ilk grace
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                    þat to se his blisful place!
                  
                    Mar blis ne ioy mai neuer be,
                  
                    þan on his suete face to se.
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