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Index: INDEX/BCMSV/4669

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Type: Index

Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/4669 (Lt 40 )

Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Language: Latin

Date(s): 166- or 167- ?

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/104529

Reference

Manuscript: Lt 40

Pages: f.4r

Description

Notes: (Nine months our)

First lines: Nine months our mothers wombe wrapps us in night

Till being ripe and fitt to beare the light

Last lines: Wher I it found my selfe unto my god

I will restore now held by earthly load

Length: 20

Verse form: Couplets

Contents: Religious poem on the journey from birth to death, and on to eternal heavenly bliss, with some revisions or corrections. Translating Latin by Seneca on the preceding page.