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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.
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!
14. Would God I might be saved, Might have an heart like David; This I have sometimes craved, Yet am by sin enslaved!
15. Vanity I have loved, My heart from God removed; And not, as me behoved, The means of Grace improved.