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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 63: LXIII. Upon a Pair of Spectacles.
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.
LXIII. Upon a Pair of Spectacles.
Spectacles are for Sight, and not for Show, Necessity doth Spectacles commend; was't not for need, there is but very few, That would for wearing Spectacles contend. We use to count them very dark indeed, Whose Eyes so dim are, that they cannot be Helped by Spectacles; such men have need A Miracle be wrought to make them see.
SPectacles are for Sight, and not for Shew, Necessity doth Spectacles commend; was't not for need, there is but very few, That would for wearing Spectacles contend. We use to count them very dark indeed, Whose Eyes so dim are, that they cannot be Helped by Spectacles; such men have need A Miracle be wrought to make them see.
Comparison. Compare Spectacles to God's Ordinances, For they present us with his Heavenly Things; Which else we could not see for hinderances, That from our dark and foolish Nature springs. If this be so, what shall we say of them, Who at God's Ordinances scoff and jeer? They do those Blessed Spectacles condemn, By which Divine Things are made to appear.
Comparison. Compare Spectacles to God's Ordinances, For they present us with his Heav'nly Things; Which else we could not see for hinderances, That from our dark and foolish Nature springs. If this be so, what shall we say of them, Who at God's Ordinances scoff and jear? They do those Blessed Spectacles condemn, By which Divine Things are made to appear.