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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