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 19, 2025.

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[Thomas Didymus.]

                  
                    For lange he dutid in þe richte, [folio 45b:2] 
                  
                    Þat hene moȝte noȝte tru wiþ here,
                  
                    Wiþ eie he was made lele truer,
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                    He prechid þare wiþ fote he gide
                  
                    To perse ande parth and folc of mede,
                  
                    And to þe folc was in hirthane,
                  
                    To þaim of ende and bactriane.
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                    Faste he soȝte þate estern thede,
                  
                    And þrillid in til haiþin hede,
                  
                    And þare he lenþid his sarmun,
                  
                    Bituix and til his passiune.
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                    In a cite hiȝte calamine,
                  
                    Of Inde fleislic þare toke he fine,
                  
                    Smitin þurȝ wiþ a spere,
                  
                    And his bodi es birid þere.
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