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Excerpt from Cursor Mundi (the Cursur O the World), Vol. 1: A Northumbrian Poem of the Xivth Century, in Four Versions, Two of Them Midland, From Cotton Ms. Vesp. An III in the Library of the British Mus.; Fairfax Ms. 14 in the Bodleian Library; Ms. Theol. 107 in the Göttingen University Library Bytakens, man, both me and 40 bis fruit bitakens alle oure dedis, Both gode and ille qua rightly redis 5 Vr dedis fro vr hert tas rote, 43 [que]dur pai be worthi or bale or bote 5 For be be thyng man drawee till Men schal him k[n]aw for god or ill. A saumpul her be paem I say. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.