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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 32: XXXII. Of Moses and his Wife.
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.
XXXII. Of Moses and his Wife.
This Moses was a fair and comely man; His wife a swarthy Ethiopian: Nor did his Milk-white Bosom change her Skin; She came out thence as black as she went in. Now Moses was a type of Moses Law, His Wife likewise of one that never saw Another way unto eternal Life; There's Mystery then in Moses and his Wife.
THis Moses was a fair and comely man; His wife a swarthy Ethiopian: Nor did his Milk-white Bosom change her Skin; She came out thence as black as she went in. Now Moses was a type of Moses Law, His Wife likewise of one that never saw Another way unto eternal Life; There's Myst'ry then in Moses and his Wife.
The Law is very Holy, Just and good, And to it is espoused all Flesh and Blood: But this its Goodness it cannot bestow, On any that are wedded thereunto.
The Law is very Holy, Just and good, And to it is espous'd all Flesh and Blood: But this its Goodness it cannot bestow, On any that are wedded thereunto.
Therefore as Moses Wife came swarthy in, And went out from him without change of Skin: So he that doth the Law for Life adore, Shall yet by it be left a Black-a-more.