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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The fourth age of the world is finished.

                  
                    ¶ þe ferþe elde of þe world is told
                  
                    þat was foure hundride wyntur old
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                    And fyue & sixti ȝeer & þre
                  
                    But siþ þis world bigon to be
                  
                    Is foure þousonde six hundride fol
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                    Who so redili reken hit wol