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A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for childrenA book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children
A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for children by J.B.A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.
London: printed for N.P., 1686
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A BOOK FOR Boys and Girls, &c. › Poem 7: VII. Upon the Fish in the Water.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
VII. Upon the Fish in the Water.
1. The water is the Fishes Element: Take her from thence, none can her death prevent. And some have said, who have Transgressors been, As good not be, as to be kept from sin.
2. The water is the Fishes Element: Leave her but there, and she is well content. So's he who in the path of Life doth plod, Take all, says he, let me but have my God.
3. The water is the Fishes Element: •er sportings there to her are excellent. […] is God's Service unto Holy men, They are not in their Element till then.
3. The water is the Fishes Element: •er sportings there to her are excellent. 〈…〉 is God's Service unto Holy men, They are not in their Element till then.