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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 48: XLVIII. Upon a Looking-glass.
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.
XLVIII. Upon a Looking-glass.
IN this, see thou thy Beauty, hast thou any: Or thy defects, should they be few or many. Thou mayst (too) here thy Spots and Freckles see, Hast thou but Eyes, and what their Numbers be. But art thou blind, there is no Looking Glass, Can show thee thy defects, thy Spots, or Face.
IN this, see thou thy Beauty, hast thou any: Or thy defects, should they be few or many. Thou mayst (too) here thy Spots and Freckles see, Hast thou but Eyes, and what their Numbers be. But art thou blind, there is no Looking Glass, Can shew thee thy defects, thy Spots, or Face.
Comparison. Unto this Glass we may compare the Word, For that to man advantage doth afford, (Has he a Mind to know himself and State;) To see what will be his Eternal Fate. But without Eyes, alas! How can he see? Many that seem to look here, blind Men be. This is the Reason, they so often read, Their Judgment there, and do it nothing dread.