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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[James the Greater.]

                  
                    S[a]int iohn and iacob þe mare,
                  
                    Zebedei suns bath þai ware,
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                    þis iachob preched widequare,
                  
                    And sent his lettris here and þar;
                  
                    þe land of spaigne in faith he fest,
                  
                    And mani oþer of þe west.
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                    Of widvten ani wite,
                  
                    Herodes did his heued to smite,
                  
                    Siþen it was his bodi tane
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                    And laid in kist of marbil stane.