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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 45: XLV. Upon the Vine-tree.
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.
XLV. Upon the Vine-tree.
What is the Vine, more than another Tree, Nay most, than it, more tall, more comely be? What Work-man thence will take a Beam or Pin, To make ought which may be delighted in? ⟨p. 54⟩It's Excellency in it's Fruit doth lie. A fruitless Vine! It is not worth a Fly.
VVHat is the Vine, more than another Tree, Nay most, than it, more tall, more comly be? What Work-man thence will take a Beam or Pin, To make ought which may be delighted in? ⟨p. 54⟩It's Excellency in it's Fruit doth lie. A fruitless Vine! It is not worth a Fly.
Comparison. What are Professors more than other men? Nothing at all. Nay, there's not one in ten, Either for Wealth, or Wit, that may compare, In many things, with some that Carnal are. Good are they if they mortify their Sin; But without that they are not worth a Pin.
Comparison. What are Professors more than other men? Nothing at all. Nay, there's not one in ten, Either for Wealth, or Wit, that may compare, In many things, with some that Carnal are. Good are they if they mortifie their Sin; But without that they are not worth a Pin.