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 18, 2025.

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[How Jesus carried the Water to his Mother without a Pot.]

                  
                    ¶ To ierico whenne þis was done
                  
                    Ioseph went also soone
                  
                    Wiþ him marie þat burde bolde
                  
                    Ihesu þenne was six ȝeer olde
                  
                    He bowed to al þat þei wolde bid
                  
                    Her biddyng bleþely he did
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                    His modir him bitoke a pot
                  
                    Watir fro þe welle to fot
                  
                    Wiþ oþere childre of þe toun
                  
                    whenne he had his watir boun
                  
                    A childe þat wiþ hem was þare
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                    Brake þe pot þat ihesu bare
                  
                    Wiþ wille or wiþ recheles dynt [folio 77a:1] 
                  
                    And ihesu vp þe watir hint
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                    And bare hit hoom as a balle
                  
                    And presented his modir wiþ alle
                  
                    whenne mary say þis maistry
                  
                    In herte she hidde hit priuely
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                    She was trusty & douted nouȝt
                  
                    But goddes wille wolde be wrouȝt