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A Jove principium

Index: INDEX/BCMSV/4666

Details

Type: Index

Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/4666 (Lt 40 )

Title: A Jove principium

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Attribution: PW; [Latin]

Language: Latin

Date(s): 166- or 167- ?

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/104526

Reference

Manuscript: Lt 40

Pages: f.3r

Description

Notes: (God joys not)

First lines: God joyes not soe in the exact addresse

Of solemne offices as holines

Last lines: More gratiouse are with him than he who brings

Set meditated words lipp offerings

Length: 6

Verse form: Couplets

Contents: Religious poem on the need for true feeling rather than ceremony in worship, corrected by Hand A. Accompanying Latin apparently attributed to both Pliny and Seneca.