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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.
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!
13. O Lord! I am ashamed, When I do hear thee named; 'Cause thee I have defamed, And liv'd like Beasts untamed!