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 20, 2024.

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The fourth age of the world is finished.

                  
                    Of world þe ferd elde now es tald,
                  
                    þat was four hundrid winter ald
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                    And fiue and sexti ȝere and thre,
                  
                    Bot siþen þis world bigan to be,
                  
                    Four thousand and sex hundrith
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                    ȝere, qua rekines right to tell es eth.