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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.
10. Had I in God delighted, And my wrong doings righted; I had not thus been frighted, Nor as I am benighted.
11. O! That God would be pleased, Towards me to be appeased; ⟨p. 4⟩And heal me thus diseased, How should I then be eased!
11. O! That God would be pleased, T'wards me to be appeased; ⟨p. 4⟩And heal me thus diseased, How should I then be eased!
12. But Truth I have despised, My follies idolized, Saints with Reproach disguised, Salvation nothing prized.
13. O Lord! I am ashamed, When I do hear thee named; 'Cause thee I have defamed, And lived like Beasts untamed!