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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 59: LIX. Upon a Skilful Player on an Instrument.
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.
LIX. Upon a Skilful Player on an Instrument.
HE that can play well on an Instrument, Will take the Ear, and captivate the Mind, With Mirth, or Sadness: For that it is bent Thereto as Music, in it, place doth find. ⟨p. 66⟩But if one hears that hath therein no skill, (As often Music lights of such a chance) Of its brave Notes, they soon be weary will; And there are some can neither sing nor dance.
HE that can play well on an Instrument, Will take the Ear, and captivate the Mind, With Mirth, or Sadness: For that it is bent Thereto as Musick, in it, place doth find. ⟨p. 66⟩But if one hears that hath therein no skill, (As often Musick lights of such a chance) Of its brave Notes, they soon be weary will; And there are some can neither sing nor dance.
Comparison. Unto him that thus skilfully doth play, God doth compare a Gospel-Minister, That rightly preacheth (and doth Godly pray) Applying truly what doth thence infer. This man, whether of Wrath or Grace he preach, So skilfully doth handle every Word; And by his Saying, doth the heart so reach, That it doth joy or sigh before the Lord. But some there be, which, as the Brute, doth lie Under the Word, without the least advance God-ward: Such do despise the Ministry, They weep not at it, neither to it dance.