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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 54: LIV. Upon the Chalk-stone.
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.
LIV. Upon the Chalk-stone.
This Stone is white, yea, warm, and also soft, Easy to work upon, unless 'tis naught. It leaves a white Impression upon those, Whom it doth touch, be they it's Friends or Foes.
THis Stone is white, yea, warm, and also soft, Easie to work upon, unless 'tis naught. It leaves a white Impression upon those, Whom it doth touch, be they it's Friends or Foes.
The Child of God, is like to this Chalk-stone, White in his Life▪ easily wrought upon: Warm in Affections, apt to leave impress, On whom he deals with, of true Godliness.
He is no sullying Coal, nor daubing Pitch, Nor one of whom men catch the Scab, or Itch; ⟨p. 62⟩But such who in the Law of God doth walk, Tender of heart, in Life whiter than Chalk:
He is no sulling Coal, nor daubing Pitch, Nor one of whom men catch the Scab, or Itch;