Prepare you, time weareth away - Mundy, William

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"The piece is notated in a high clef combination with voice ranges a fourth higher than the norm of the time."

⌛ Period → Renaissance

◈ Genre / Form Sacred songs

♬ Voicing → AATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 18

CPDL # 86798

Editor Jason Smart

Posted 2025-09-14

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

¶Lyrics / Text

Prepare you, time weareth away Prepare you in haste lest you decay. Prepare you to judgement in the last day. In time prepare you. Wickedness did never so much abound. God's truth device groweth always, for strange sins daily among men be found, which sheweth it plain to be the last day. saying these words: Prepare you. With glory and great power the Lord of all from heaven shall come, God's own dear son. Then, sitting on his seat imperial, angels with trumpets shall blow the doom before the face of the Lord. We warn you therefore: In time prepare you. Out of the graves at that day shall appear every kindered with fear and dread, from all quarters of the world, both far and near. The sea likewise shall give up her dead before the face of the Lord. We warn you therefore: In time prepare you. The goats from the sheep shall be put aside, the one elect, the other reject. The angels of the Lord shall them divide, the good from the bad, which are not infect. Watch therefore diligently, I warn you. While ye have time, prepare you. To the chosen the Lord these words shall say: Come unto me that blessed be and receive of your reward this day. Unto the poor you have shewed your charity. Therefore now come unto me, I warn you, and into joy prepare you. To the wicked he shall say again: Avoid from me that cursed be into hell fire and everlasting pain, the reward most meet for iniquity: ye persecuted my friends. I warn you therefore: to hell prepare you. The wicked shall stand far off and behold the chosen flock whom they did mock, saying: Alas, we were too bold them to imprison and in fetters to lock. Thereforew we burn now in hell. I warn you, while ye have time, prepare you. O Lord, grant us all thy mercy and grace, that we may come to thy kingdom and repent our sins while we have space. Then joyfully we at the day of doom shall receive eternal life, I warn you, to the which the Lord prepare you.

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