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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.
Yea, as for her, the day that she was born, As loathsome, out of doors, they did her cast; Naked, and Filthy, Stinking, and forlorn: This was her Pedigree from first to last.
Nor was she pitied in this Estate; All let her lie polluted in her Blood: None her Condition did commiserate, Their was no Heart that sought to do her good.
Nor was she pittied in this Estate; All let her lie polluted in her Blood: None her Condition did commiserate, Their was no Heart that sought to do her good.
Yet she unto these Ornaments is come, Her Breasts are fashioned, her Hair is grown; She is made Heiress of the best Kingdom; All her Indignities away are blown.
Cast out she was, but now she home is taken, Naked (sometimes) but now you see she's clothed; Now made the Darling, though before forsaken., Bare-foot, but now, as Princes Daughters, shod.
Cast out she was, but now she home is taken, Naked (sometimes) but now you see she's clo'd; Now made the Darling, though before forsaken., Bare-foot, but now, as Princes Daughters, shod.