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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 47: XLVII. Upon the Boy and his Paper of Plumbs.
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.
XLVII. Upon the Boy and his Paper of Plumbs.
What hast thou there, my pretty Boy? Plumbs? How? Yes, Sir, a Paper full. I thought 'twas so, because with Joy Thou didst them out thy Paper pull. ⟨p. 56⟩The Boy goes from me, eats his Plumbs, Which he counts better of than Bread: But by and by he to me comes, With nought but Paper and the Thread.
VVHat hast thou there, my pretty Boy? Plumbs? How? Yes, Sir, a Paper full. I thought 'twas so, because with Joy Thou didst them out thy Paper pull. ⟨p. 56⟩The Boy goes from me, eats his Plumbs, Which he counts better of than Bread: But by and by he to me comes, With nought but Paper and the Thread.
Comparison. This Boy an Emblem is of such. Whose Lot in worldly things doth lie: Glory they in them ne'er so much, Their pleasant Springs will soon be dry. Their Wealth, their Health, Honours and Life, Will quickly to a period come; If for these, is their only Strife, They soon will not be worth a Plumb.