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Scriptural poems being several portions of Scripture digested into English verse / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for J. Blare, 1700
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.
(For I affected Plainness more than Fame)
Nor couldst thou hope to have it better done:
Nor could'st thou hope to have it better done:
For I'm no Poet, nor a Poet's Son
But a Mechanic, guided by no rule,
But a Mechanick, guided by no rule,
But what I gained in a Grammar School.
In my Minority: I can't commend it,
Such as it is into the World I send it,
And should be glad to see some Hand to mend it.
Would but those Men whose Genius leads them to it,
Would but those Men whose Genius leads them to't,
And who have time and parts wherewith to do it,
And who have time and parts wherewith to do't,
