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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Of bodili substance if þu wil witt, Manis saule þat es it.
Als i told or þat king of craftwald mensked be wid tuin schaft,Bath wid angel and wid man,Line 513 Adam þer fore wroght was þan.
þe teind ordir to fulfill,þat lucifer did to spill.Line 516 Of erd alsua ne was he noght,Bot of foure elementis wroght.Of water his bodi, is fless of laire,His here of fir, his ond of aire,Line 520 . . . . .. . . . . [no gap in the MS.]His hede wid-ine bath eien tuin,þe skey bath sune and mone wid-in,Right als men eien er sett to sight, [folio 5a:1] To [[read So]] seruis sune and mone of light.Line 526 Seuen mayster sternis er sett in heuen,And manys hede has thirlis seuen,þe quilk if þu wil þe vmthinckþu may þaim find wid littel suink.þis wind þat men draus oftLine 531 Bitakins wind þat blauis on loft,Of quilk es thoner and leue[n]ing leddAls onde wid host in brest is bred.Into þe see all watir sinkis,Line 535 And manes wambe all licur drinkis,His fete him beris vp fra fal,Alsua þe erde vphaldis all.þe ouyr fir ges manes sight,þe ouyr air of hering might,Line 540 þis vnderþ wind him giues his ond,þe erd tast to fele and fond,þe hardnes þat men has in bonis.It is mad of þe kind of stonis,Line 544 On erd it grouis tres and gris,And nayle and her [of] manes fless.wid bestes dumb man hath his feleOf thing men likis, euil or wele.Line 548 Of þir thinges i haue here saidwas adam cors togider graid.
