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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 39: XXXIX. Upon the Beggar.
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.
XXXIX. Upon the Beggar.
HE wants, he asks, he pleads his Poverty, They within doors do him an Alms deny. He doth repeat and aggravate his Grief; But they repulse him, give him no relief. He begs, they say, be gone; he will not hear, But coughs, sighs and make signs, he still is there. They disregard him, he repeats his groans; They still say nay, and he himself bemoans. The grow more rugged, they call him Vagrant; He cries the shriller, trumpets out his want. At last when they perceive he'll take no Nay, An Alms they give him without more delay.
Comparison. This Beggar doth resemble them that pray To God for Mercy, and will take no Nay. But wait, and count that all his hard Gain-says, Are nothing else, but fatherly Delays. ⟨p. 49⟩Then imitate him, praying Souls, and cry: There's nothing like to Importunity.