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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 64: LXIV. Upon our being so afraid of small Creatures.
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.
LXIV. Upon our being so afraid of small Creatures.
Man by Creation was made Lord of all, But now he is become an Underling; He thought he should a gained by his Fall, But lost his Head-ship over every thing.
MAn by Creation was made Lord of all, But now he is become an Underling; He thought he should a gained by his Fall, But lost his Head-ship over ev'ry thing.
What! What! A humane Creature and afraid Of Frogs, Dogs, Cats, Rats, Mice, or such like Creature? This fear of thine has fully thee betrayed, Thou art Back-slid from God, to him a Traitor.
What! What! A humane Creature and afraid Of Frogs, Dogs, Cats, Rats, Mice, or such like Creature? This fear of thine has fully thee betraid, Thou art Back-slid from God, to him a Traytor.
How by his Fall is stately Man decayed? Nor is it in his hand now to renew him, Of things dismayed, at him, he is afraid; Worms, Lice, Flies, Mice; Yea Vanities subdue him.