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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.
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.
Instead of Filth, she now has her Perfumes, Instead of Ignominy. her Chains of Gold: Instead of what the Beauty most consumes, Her Beauty's perfect, lovely to behold.