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

[A Song of the Five Joys of Our Lady.]

[folio 169a:1] [H]Aile be þu mari maiden bright! Line 25619 þu teche me þe wais right, I am a sorful dreri wight, Line 25621 als þu mai se, Quer i sal in þe hard pine of hel be. Line 25623

[M]i sinful saule sighes sare, Liued i haue in sin and care, Leue i wil and do na mare, Line 25626 mi leued fre. Saul and bodi, lijf and dede, bi-teche i þe. Line 25628

þar þu lay in þi bright boure, Leuedi! quite als leli floure, An angel com fra heue . . . . . Line 25631 sant gabriel, And said, "leuedi! ful of blis, ai worth þe wel!" Line 25633

Stil þu stod, ne stint þu noght, þu said til him þe bodword brogh[t], Al his wil it sal be wroght, Line 25636 in his ancele. Leuedi bi-for þi suete sun mak vs lele. Line 25638

[þ]e toþer ioy, i wate it was, Als sun [it] schines thoru þe glas, Sua ert þu leued wemles, Line 25641 and ai sal be. Leued, for þat suete ioy, þu reu on me. Line 25643

[þ]e thrid ioy, i vnderstand, Thre kinges com of thrin land, To fal þi suete sun til hand, Line 25646 and gaf him gift. Mir, reclis, and gold red, als it was right. Line 25648

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þe king was riche, þe gold was rede, þe reclis fel til his goddhed, [folio 169a:2] Mir to man þat sal be dede Line 25651 for vr sake. Leuedi! to þi suete sun at ane vs make. Line 25653

þe feird, it es al thoru his grace Quen he fra dede to lijf ras, Quen he sua hard suongen was Line 25656 on rode tre; Leuedi! of vr sinnes al þu make vs fre. Line 25658

[þ]e fijft, þu was til heuen broght, þe iuus þe soght and fand þe noght, Als þi suete sun it wroght, Line 25661 almighti king. Leuedi mari! be vr helpe at vr ending. Line 25663

Leuedi! for þi ioies fiue, þu kid þi might and help vs suith, Leuedi mari! moder o liue Line 25666 wid flur and fruit. Rose and leli þu sprede ay wide, and helpe þi suite. Line 25668

Leuedi mari! wele þu wast, þe feindes fraistes me ful fast, wele i hope i sal þaim cast Line 25671 thoru might of þe. Quen i neuen þi suete nam, i ger þaim fle. Line 25673

þir iois er said als i can sai; Mi site, mi soru, i cast away, Nu help me leuedi wele þu may, Line 25676 and be mi spere. Fra þe har pain of hell þu me were. Line 25678

All þat singes þis sang, And all þat ligges in paines strang, þu lede þaim right þar þai ga wrang, Line 25681 and haue merci On all þat trous þat godd was born of þe, fair leuedi! Line 25683