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Tenn

Index: INDEX/BCMSV/2426

Details

Type: Index

Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/2426 (Lt 56 )

Title: Tenn

Author: Morris, Castilian

Attribution: [C. Morris]

Date(s): 1695

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/100341

Reference

Manuscript: Lt 56

Pages: f.120v

Bibliographic reference: BCMSV 2430; BCMSV 2472

Description

Notes: (Thou knowest not)

First lines: Thou knowst not when thy master will return

Early or late at even or at morn

Last lines: Now then prepair thyself thy duty for to pay

No minute slip but praise and watch and pray

Length: 4

Verse form: Couplets

Contents: Religious acrostic on the word Tenn, i.e. Ten, on the necessity

to be constantly prepared for Christ's coming. Following prose

dated 1695. Repeated twice elsewhere in the MS.