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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 2: II The awakened Childs Lamentation.
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.
6. I have been often called, By sin as oft enthralled, Pleasures hath me fore-stalled. How is my Spirit galled!
6. I have been often called, By sin as oft enthralled, Pleasures hath me fore-stalled. How is my Spirit gauled!
7. As sin has me infected, I am thereof detected: Mercy I have neglected, I fear I am rejected.
8. The Word I have mis-used Good Council too refused; Thus I my Self abused; How can I be excused?
9. When other Children prayed, That work I then delayed, Ran up and down and played; And thus from God have strayed.