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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 33: XXXIII. Upon the barren Fig-tree in God's Vineyard
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.
Hast not been digged about, and dunged too, Will neither Patience, nor yet Dressing do? The Executioner is come, O Tree, Bear Fruit, or else thine End will cursed be!
Hast not been dig'd about, and dunged too, Will neither Patience, nor yet Dressing do? The Executioner is come, O Tree, Bear Fruit, or else thine End will cursed be!
He that about thy Roots takes pains to dig, Would if on thee were found but one good Fig, Preserve thee from the Axe: But barren Tree, Bear Fruit, or else thy End will cursed be!
The utmost end of Patience is at hand, 'Tis much if thou much longer here doth stand. O Cumber-ground, thou art a barren Tree, Bear Fruit, or else thine End will cursed be!
Thy standing nor thy name will help at all, When fruitful Trees are spared thou must fall. The Axe is laid unto thy Roots, O Tree! Bear fruit, or else thine End will cursed be!