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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 55: LV. Upon a Stinking Breath.
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.
LV. Upon a Stinking Breath.
Doth this proceed from an infected Air? Or from man's common, sweet and wholesome Fare? It comes from a foul Stomach, or what's worse, Ulcerous Lungs, Teeth, or a private Curse.
DOth this proceed from an infected Air? Or from man's common, sweet and wholesome Fare? It comes from a foul Stomack, or what's worse, Ulcerous Lungs, Teeth, or a private Curse.
To this, I some mens Notions do compare, Who seem to breathe in none but Scripture Air. They suck it in, but breathe it out again, So putrefied, that it doth scarce retain Any thing of its native Excellence. It only serves to fix the Pestilence Of their delusive Notions, in the mind Of the next foolish Proselyte they find.
To this, I some mens Notions do compare, Who seem to breathe in none but Scripture Air. They suck it in, but breathe it out again, So putrified, that it doth scarce retain Any thing of its native Excellence. It only serves to fix the Pestilence Of their delusive Notions, in the mind Of the next foolish Proselyte they find.