N29515:712
Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to…Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to…
Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.
New York: printed by Will. Bradford, 1695
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Youth, Those days which God to me doth send, In Pleasure I resolve to spend: Like as the Birds i'th' lovely Spring, Sit Chirping on the Boughs, and Sing; Who straining forth their warbling Notes, Do make sweet Music in their Throats. So I resolve in this my Prime, In Sports and Play to spend my Time; Sorrow and Grief I'll put away▪ Such Things agree not with my Day: From Clouds my Morning shall be free, And nought on Earth shall •rouble me. I will embrace each sweet Delight T•• Earth affords me, Day and Night. T•o Parents Grieve, and me Correct; […] their Counsel will Reject; I matter not so I can have My lovely Sports▪ and Pleasures Brave▪
Youth, THose days which God to me doth send, In Pleasure I resolve to spend: Like as the Birds i'th' lovely Spring, Sit Chirping on the Boughs, and Sing; VVho straining forth their warbling Notes, Do make sweet Musick in their Throats. So I resolve in this my Prime, In Sports and Play to spend my Time; Sorrow and Grief I'll put away▪ Such Things agree not with my Day: From Clouds my Morning shall be free, And nough• on Earth shall •rouble me. I will embrace each sweet Delight T•• Earth affords me, Day and Night. T•o Parents Grieve, and me Correct; 〈…〉 their Counsel will Reject; I matter not so I can have My lovely Sports▪ and Pleasures Brave▪
DEVIL The •esolution which you take, Sweet Youth doth me most merry make; Thou shalt become my lovely oy, nd I will fill thy Heart with joy,