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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 60: LX. Upon Fly-blows.
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.
LX. Upon Fly-blows.
There is good Meat provided for man's Health. To this the Flesh-fly comes, as 'twere by Stealth. Bloweth thereon, and so Be-maggots it, As that it is, tho wholesome, quite unfit For queasy Stomachs, they must pass it by: Now is not this a prejudicial Fly?
THere is good Meat provided for man's Health. To this the Flesh-fly comes, as 'twere by Stealth. Bloweth thereon, and so Be-maggots it, As that it is, tho wholsome, quite unfit For queazy Stomachs, they must pass it by: Now is not this a prejudicial Fly?
Comparison. Let this good Meat, good Doctrine signify, And call him which reproaches it, this Fly. For as this Flesh-fly blows this wholesome meat, That it the queasy Stomach cannot eat: So they which do good Doctrine scandalize, Present it unto some in such Disguise; That they cannot accept, nor with it close, But slight it, and themselves to Death expose. Reproach it then, thou art a mauling Club, This Fly, yea, and the Son of Beelzebub.
Comparison. Let this good Meat, good Doctrine signify, And call him which reproaches it, this Fly. For as this Flesh-fly blows this wholsome meat, That it the queazy Stomach cannot eat: So they which do good Doctrine scandalize, Present it unto some in such Disguize; That they cannot accept, nor with it close, But slight it, and themselves to Death expose. Reproach it then, thou art a mauling Club, This Fly, yea, and the Son of Belzebub.