"Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?"
— Thomas Traherne

January 1, 1970

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Anonymous 17th century comment on the flyleaf of the Lambeth Manuscript of Traherne’s works; cited from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) vol. 55, p. 208.