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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.
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.
LXXIV. Of Beauty.
Beauty, at best is but as fading Flowers, Bright now, anon with darksome Clouds it lowers. 'Tis but skin-deep, and therefore must decay; Times blowing on it sends it quite away.
BEauty, at best is but as fading Flow'rs, Bright now, anon with darksome Clouds it low'rs. 'Tis but skin-deep, and therefore must decay; Times blowing on it sends it quite away.
Then why should it be, as it is, admired, By one and to'ther, and so much desired. Things flitting we should moderately use, Or we by them our selves shall much abuse.
THE CONTENTS 1. Upon the Ten Commandments. 2. The awakened Child's Lamentation. 3. Meditations upon an Egg. 4. Upon the Lord's Prayer. 5. Meditation upon Peep of day. 6. Upon the Flint in the Water. 7. Upon the Fish in the Water. 8. Upon the Swallow. 9. Upon the Bee. 10. Upon the Creed. 11. Upon a lowering Morning. 12. Upon over-much Niceness. 13. Meditations upon the Candle. 14. Upon the Sacraments. 15. Upon the Suns Reflections upon the Clouds in a fair Morning. 16. Upon Apparel. 17. The Sinner and the Spider. 18. Meditation upon day before Sun-rising. 19. Of the Mole in the Ground. 20. Of the Cuckoo. 21. Of the Boy and Butter-Fly. ⟨p. 78⟩