Musick
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
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