Cursor mundi, the cursur o the world, a northumbrian poem of the XIVth century, ed. R. Morris, 1874, etc., 6 vol. 8o, t. V, p. 1651.

«Do come,» he seyde, «my minstrales,

And gestours for to tellen tales

Anon in my arminge;

Of romances that been roiales

Of popes and of cardinales,

And eek of loue lykinge.»

Canterbury tales.Rime of Sir Thopas.

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