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Musick

Index: INDEX/BCMSV/1308

Details

Type: Index

Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/1308 (Lt 15 )

Title: Musick

Author: Prior, Matthew

Date(s): 1708

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/99213

Reference

Manuscript: Lt 15

Pages: pp.201-02

Description

Notes: (Yet take thy) -or- (Ye sons of)

First lines: Yet take thy bent my soul another sens

Indulge add musick to magnificence

Last lines: Condemn'd eternal changes to persue

Tir'd with the last & eager still for new

Length: 26

Verse form: Couplets

Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, welcoming the

power of music to gladden and soothe a soul troubled by grief and cares, but

finding its effects short-lived