Cursor mundi (The cursur o the world). A Northumbrian poem of the XIVth century in four versions. Ed. by the Rev. Richard Morris ...

[Of the Assumption of Our Lady.]

Bot firist i tell of hir ending Line 20011 þat of all kinges bar þe king, Hu scho þat bar him þat vs boght, vnto þat mekil blis was broght. Line 20014 [folio 133b:2] þou nan als i be sua vnworthi man, Hirs i am wid all þat i can, wid fell and fless and saule wid-all, I am and euer sal be hir thrall; Line 20018 For i am neuer mare sua fre Als till þat leuedi thralled be. Of hir worschip sua wid to win Line 20021 To tell wate i noght quar bigin, For, þou mi tung it war of stele, And i cuth luue na man sua wele, And bigan hir louing speken Line 20025 A thousand ȝere might i noght rekin, þou þat i did nan oþer þing, Tell tend part of hir louing. For ai þe mare i thoght to say, Line 20029 þe widder suld i find þe way. þou queþer leuedi sal i neuer fine Ay to be in louing þine, Line 20032 Ful wele i wat, sua kind art þu, þat þu mi will wil me alu, For oft þu menskes man wid mede For will allane widuten dede; Line 20036 In þi louing þu do me lende, Leuedi, vnnto mi liues ende. [Q]uarfor i sal a littel vie Line 20039 Rede here nu of þat leuedi, Fra þat hir sun, vr lauerd crist, Deide on rode and was traist. Line 20042

Line 20042 I witt ȝu to say widvten were, Line 20043 þat all þat hertli wil it here, Hertli heris it or redis, þai sal haue hir blissing to medis, Bath cristes aun benisun Line 20047 And of þair sines remissiun; Womman sal noght peris of barn, Ne nane wid mistime be forfarn Ne fall in-to na dedeli plight, Line 20051 Quen þai it here, dai or night, And mar þar-of i sai ȝu ȝeit, [folio 134a:1] Qua hertli redis or heris it, Of vr leuedi and saint iohn, Line 20055 þair beniscon þaim bes noght won. And saint edmund of pounteni, Dais of pardun þaim gaf fourti, In a writt þis ilke i fand, Line 20059 Himself it wroght i vnderstand. In suthrin englijs was it draun, And i haue turned it till vr aun Langage of þe norþren lede, þat can nan oþer englis rede. Line 20064