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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 58: LVIII. Of the Spouse of Christ.
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.
LVIII. Of the Spouse of Christ.
Who's this that cometh from the Wilderness▪ Like Smoky Pillars, thus perfumed with Myrrh Leaning upon her dearest in Distress, Led into's Bosom, by the Comforter?
VVHo's this that cometh from the Wilderness▪ Like Smoaky Pillars, thus perfumed with Myrrhe Leaning upon her dearest in Distress, Led into's Bosom, by the Comforter?
She's clothed with the Sun, crowned with twelve Stars, The spotted Moon her Footstool he hath made. The Dragon her assaults, fills her with Jars, Yet rests she under her Beloved's Shade.
She's clothed with the Sun, crown'd with twelve Stars, The spotted Moon her Footstool he hath made. The Dragon her assaults, fills her with Jarrs, Yet rests she under her Beloved's Shade.
But whence was she? what is her Pedigree? Was not her Father, a poor Amorite? What was her Mother, but as others be, A poor, a wretched and sinful Hittite!