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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 70: LXX. Upon a Sheet of white Paper.
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.
LXX. Upon a Sheet of white Paper.
This subject is unto the foulest Pen, Or fairest, handled by the Sons of Men. 'Twill also show what is upon it writ, Be it wisely, or non-sence, for want of wit. Each blot, and blur, it also will expose, To thy next Readers, be they Friends, or Foes.
THis subject is unto the foulest Pen, Or fairest, handled by the Sons of Men. 'Twill also shew what is upon it writ, Be't wisely, or non-sence, for want of wit. Each blot, and blur, it also will expose, To thy next Readers, be they Friends, or Foes.
Comparison. Some Souls are like unto this Blank or Sheet, (Tho not in Whiteness:) the next man they meet; If wise, or Fool, debauched, or Deluder, Or what you will, the dangerous Intruder May write thereon, to cause that man to err, In Doctrine, or in Life, with blot and blur. Nor will that Soul conceal from who observes, But show how foul it is, wherein it swerves: A reading man may know who was the Writer, And by the Hellish Non-sence, the Inditer.
Comparison. Some Souls are like unto this Blank or Sheet, (Tho not in Whiteness:) the next man they meet; If wise, or Fool, debauched, or Deluder, Or what you will, the dangerous Intruder May write thereon, to cause that man to err, In Doctrine, or in Life, with blot and blur. Nor will that Soul conceal from who observes, But shew how foul it is, wherein it swerves: A reading man may know who was the Writer, And by the Hellish Non-sence, the Inditer.