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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 44: XLIV. Upon a Penny Loaf.
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.
XLIV. Upon a Penny Loaf.
Thy Price one Penny is, in time of Plenty; In Famine doubled 'tis, from one to twenty. Yea, no man knows what Price on thee to set, When there is but one Penny Loaf to get.
THy Price one Penny is, in time of Plenty; In Famine doubled 'tis, from one to twenty. Yea, no man knows what Price on thee to set, When there is but one Penny Loaf to get.
Comparison. This Loaf's an Emblem of the Word of God, A thing of low Esteem, before the Rod Of Famine smites the Soul with Fear of Death: But then it is our All, our Life, our Breath.
Comparison. THis Loaf's an Emblem of the Word of God, A thing of low Esteem, before the Rod Of Famine smites the Soul with Fear of Death: But then it is our All, our Life, our Breath.