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Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Acrostic on the name 'William', with eight additional lines, which reflects on the story of the Fall of Man, and redemption through Christ. One of a collection of acrostics.
Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Acrostic on the name 'John', concerned with the mutability and brevity of life; followed by another 10 lines on a similar theme. One of a collection of acrostics.
Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Acrostic on the name 'Philip', with nine additional lines, praising God for his mercies. One of a collection of acrostics.
Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Acrostic on the name 'Thomas', with six additional lines, addressed to a young man, and on the subject of age/youth. At the top of the poem 'To a young youth etc.', and at the bottom there is a key: 'Hyems, the winter, Philomel the nighting-gal,
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Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W. [Bible]
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Religious acrostic on the name 'Zacheus', with ten additional lines, which paraphrases the story of Zacheus being called out of a tree by Jesus, repenting his sinful ways, and ascending thenceforth the never-ending tree of life. One of a collection
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Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Religious acrostic on the name 'John', with twelve additional lines, on the brevity of human life, and the consequent importance of making good use of one's time. One of a collection of acrostics.
Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Acrostic on the name 'Thomas', with six additional lines, enjoining the reader to mark well the brevity of human life, and not overly seek out earthly pleasures. One of a collection of acrostics.
Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Acrostic on the name 'Samuel', with ten additional lines, deploying the metaphor of God as good shepherd, and man as straying sheep. One of a collection of acrostics.
Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Acrostic on the name 'Robert Worlidge', entreating God's help in man's struggle against the devil's strategems. One of a collection of acrostics.
Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Acrostic on the word 'Woman' (repeated), on the dual status of women as both blessing and curse to men; concerns itself specifically in the first stanza with Eve and Fall of Man, and then, in the second, with salvation. One of a collection of
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Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Acrostic on the name 'Anna', with six additional lines, on the Fall of Man and his subsequent redemption through Christ. One of a collection of acrostics.
Title: Acrosticks
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Acrostic on the name 'Anna', with six additional lines, on the theme of the vanity of worldly pleasures. One of a collection of acrostics.