[De conuersione sancti Pauli apostoli] [[In later hand]]
[F]ra þat steuin was done of daw,
Faste þai rase wiþoutin aw
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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"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 16, 2024.
Pages
Page 1594
Gaine hali kirke, it for to haste,
In ierusalem aldir maste.
Line 19480
For he, þat ouir man was slan, [folio 40a:1]
Was of þe seuin deknis ane,
Disciplis foluwid þaim sa harde
Þat þaim draue oute of þair warde,
Sauf þa postlis þate þaim ledde,
Line 19485
Þai stode, bote al þair oþir fledde:
Al oþir þaim fledde, bot giet þai stode,
Sua dos þe hertis þat ar gode.
Þan saȝ þa apostlis it was nede
To turnin til anoþir lede.
Line 19490
Alphei sune þat hiȝte Iacob,
Of iurselem þai made bissop,
Þai laide þair handis him apon,
Petir and iacob and saint Iohan,
Forþi of quoner þan of þre,
Line 19495
Na mai na bissop sacrid be.
In þat siquare was saulus mast,
Þat cristin kirk bigan to wast,
Line 19498
Fra huse to huse sekande he ran,
And oute he droȝ baþe wiue and man.
And þoȝ he prisund þaim wiþ woȝ,
Als god walde nane of þaim he sloȝ,
For god him gette, þat euir is gode,
Vnwemmid his hende in sacles blode.
Þai þat were scailid sua for nede,
Fra stede to stede walcand þai giede,
Stedfaster þoȝ queþir þan are
Line 19507
Fo[r]þi þate þai þan scailid ware.
Philipe, þat was of deknis an,
Þe neste to tel fra saint stephan,
To preche he come until a bie
Line 19511
Þat man clepid samarie.
Þare þe folc wiþ ful assente
Til his wordis gaue þair tente,
Line 19514
Miraclis dide he for þaim fele,
Line 19515
For mani sekemen gaue he hele.