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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 71: LXXI. Upon the Boy dull at his Book.
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.
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LXXI. Upon the Boy dull at his Book.
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Some Boys have Wit enough to sport and play,
SOme Boys have Wit enough to sport and play,
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Who at their Books are Block-heads day by day.
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Some men are arch enough at any Vice,
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But Dunces in the way to Paradise.
But Dunces in the way to Paradice.
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