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A30125
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A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.
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Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
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1686
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Wing B5489; ESTC R26565
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o'harm shall come to thee Yea I will be thy Succourer My Bosom shall thy Cabbin be But lo behold the Bird is gone These Charmings would not make her yield The Child 's left at the Bush alone The Bird flies yonder o'er the Field Comparison This Child of Christ an Emblem is The Bird to Sinners I compare The Thorns are like those Sins of his Which do surround him ev'ry where Her Songs her Food and Sun-shine day An Emblem 's of those foolish Toys Which to Destruction lead the way The fruit of worldly empty Joys The Arguments this Child doth chuse To draw to him a Bird thus wild Shews Christ familiar Speech doth use To make's to him be reconciled The Bird in that she takes her Wing To speed her from him after all Shews us vain Man loves any thing Much better than the Heav'nly Call XXXII Of Moses and his Wife THis Moses was a fair and comely man His wife a swarthy Ethiopian Nor did his Milk-white Bosom change her Skin She came out thence as black as she went in Now Moses was a type of Moses Law His Wife likewise of one that never saw Another way unto eternal Life There 's Myst'ry then in Moses and his Wife The Law is very Holy Just and good And to it is espous'd all Flesh and Blood But this its Goodness it cannot bestow On any that are wedded thereunto Therefore as Moses Wife came swarthy in And went out from him without change of Skin So he that doth the Law for Life adore Shall yet by it be left a Black-a-more XXXIII Upon the barren Fig-tree in God's Vineyard What barren here in this so good a soyl The sight of this doth make God's heart recoyl From giving thee his Blessing Barren Tree Bear Fruit else thine end will cursed be Art thou not planted by the water side Know'st not thy Lord by Fruit is glorifi'd The Sentence is cut down the barren Tree Bear Fruit or else thine End will cursed be Hast not been dig'd about and dunged too Will neither Patience nor yet Dressing do The Executioner is come O Tree Bear Fruit or else thine End will cursed be He that about thy Roots takes pains to dig Would if on thee were found but one good Fig Preserve thee from the Axe But barren Tree Bear Fruit or else thy End will cursed be The utmost end of Patience is at hand 'T is much if thou much longer here doth stand O cumber-Cumber-ground thou art a barren Tree Bear Fruit or else thine End will cursed be Thy standing nor thy name will help at all When fruitful Trees are spared thou must fall The Axe is laid unto thy Roots O Tree Bear fruit or else thine End will cursed be XXXIIII Of the Rose-bush THis homely Bush doth to mine eyes expose A very fair yea comely ruddy Rose This Rose doth also bow its head to me Saying come pluck me I thy Rose will be Yet offer I to gather Rose or Bud Ten to one but the Bush will have my Blood This looks like a Trappan or a Decoy To offer and yet snap who would enjoy Yea the more eager on 't the more in danger Be he the Master of it or a Stranger Bush why dost bear a Rose If none must have it Why dost expose it yet claw those that crave it Art become freakish Dost the Wanton play Or doth thy testy humour tend this way Comparison This Rose God's Son is with his ruddy Looks But what 's the Bush Whose pricks like Tenter-hooks Do scratch and claw the finest Ladies hands Or rent her Cloths if she too near it stands This Bush an Emblem is of Adam's race Of which Christ came when he his Father's Grace Commended to us in his crimson Blood While he in Sinners stead and Nature stood Thus Adam's Race did bear this dainty Rose And doth the same to Adam's Race expose But those of Adam's Race which at it catch Adam's Race will them prick and claw and scratch XXXV Of the going down of the Sun What hast thou run thy Race Art going down Thou seemest angry why dost on us frown Yea wrap thy head with Clouds and hide thy face As threatning to withdraw from us thy Grace Oh leave us not When once thou hid'st thy head Our Horizon with darkness will be spread Tell 's who hath thee offended Turn again Alas too late Entreaties are in vain Comparison Our Gospel has had here a Summers day But in its Sun-shine we like Fools did play Or else fall out and with each other wrangle And did instead of work not much but jangle And if our Sun seems angry hides his face Shall it go down shall Night possess this place Let not the voice of night-Birds us afflict And of our mis-spent Summer us convict XXXVI Upon the Frog THe Frog by Nature is both damp and cold Her Mouth is large her Belly much will hold She sits somewhat ascending loves to be Croaking in Gardens tho unpleasantly Comparison The Hyppocrite is like unto this Frog As like as is the Puppy to the Dog He is of nature cold his Mouth is wide To prate and at true Goodness to deride He mounts his Head as if he was above The World when yet 't is that which has his Love And though he seeks in Churches for to croak He neither loveth Jesus nor his Yoak XXXVII Upon the whipping of a Top. 'T Is with the Whip the Boy sets up the Top The Whip makes it run round upon it's Toe The Whip makes it hither and thither hop 'T is with the Whip the Top is made to go Comparison Our Legalist is like unto this Top Without a Whip he doth not Duty do Let Moses whip him he will skip and hop Forbear to whip he 'l neither stand nor go XXXVIII Upon the Pismire MUst we unto the Pis-mire go to School To learn of her in Summer to provide For Winter next ensuing Man 's a Fool Or silly Ants would not be made his Guide But Sluggard is it not a shame for thee To be out-done by Pis-mires Prethee hear Their Works too will thy Condemnation be When at the Judgment Seat thou shalt appear But since thy God doth bid thee to her go Obey her ways consider and be wise The Piss-ants tell thee will what thou must do And set the way to Life before thine eyes XXXIX Upon the Beggar HE wants he asks he pleads his Poverty They within doors do him an Alms deny He doth repeat and aggravate his Grief But they repulse him give him no relief He begs they say be gone he will not hear But coughs sighs and make signs he still is there They disregard him he repeats his groans They still say nay and he himself bemoans The grow more rugged they call him Vagrant He cries the shriller trumpets out his want At last when they perceive he 'll take no Nay An Alms they give him without more delay Comparison This Beggar doth resemble them that
Who at their Books are Block-heads day by day Some men are arch enough at any Vice But Dunces in the way to Paradice LXXII Upon Time and Eternity ETernity is like unto a Ring Time like to Measure doth it self extend Measure commences is a finite thing The Ring has no beginning middle end LXXIII Upon Fire WHo falls into the Fire shall burn with heat While those remote scorn from it to retreat Yea while those in it cry out oh I burn Some farther off those crys to Laughter turn Comparison While some tormented are in Hell for sin On Earth some greatly do delight therein Yea while some make it eccho with their Cry Others count it a Fable and a Lye LXXIV Of Beauty BEauty at best is but as fading Flow'rs Bright now anon with darksome Clouds it low'rs 'T is but skin-deep and therefore must decay Times blowing on it sends it quite away Then why should it be as it is admired By one and to'ther and so much desired Things flitting we should moderately use Or we by them our selves shall much abuse THE CONTENTS 1. UPon the Ten Commandments 2. The awakened Childs Lamentation 3. Meditations upon an Egg. 4. Upon the Lord's Prayer 5. Meditation upon Peep of day 6. Upon the Flint in the Water 7. Upon the Fish in the Water 8. Upon the Swallow 9. Upon the Bee 10. Upon the Creed 11. Upon a low'ring Morning 12. Upon over-much Niceness 13. Meditations upon the Candle 14. Upon the Sacraments 15. Upon the Suns Reflections upon the Clouds in a fair Morning 16. Upon Apparel 17. The Sinner and the Spider 18. Meditation upon day before Sun-rising 19. Of the Mole in the Ground 20. Of the Cuckow 21. Of the Boy and Butter-Fly 22. Of the Fly at the Candle 23. Upon the Lark and the Fowler 24. Of the fatted Swine 25. On the rising of the Sun 26. Upon the promising Fruitfulness of a Tree 27. On the Post-boy 28. Upon the Horse in the Mill. 29. Upon a Ring of Bells 30. Upon the Thief 31. Of the Child with the Bird at the Bush. 32. Of Moses and his Wife 33. Upon the barren Fig-tree in God's Vineyard 34. Of the Rose-bush 35. Of the going down of the Sun 36. Upon the Frog 37. Upon the whipping of a Top. 38. Upon the Pismire 39. Upon the Beggar 40. Upon an Instrument of Musick in an unskilful Hand 41. Upon the Horse and his Rider 42. Upon the Sight of a Pound of Candles falling to the Ground 43. Of Fowls flying in the Air 44. Upon a Penny Loaf 45. Upon the vine-Vine-tree 46. The Boy and Watch-maker 47. Upon the Boy and his Paper of Plumbs 48. Upon a Looking-glass 49. Upon a Lanthorn 50. Of the Love of Christ. 51. Of the Horse and Drum 52. On the Kackling of a Hen. 53. Upon an Hour Glass 54. Upon the Chalk-stone 55. Upon a Stinking Breath 56. Upon Death 57. Upon the Snail 58. Of the Spouse of Christ. 59. Upon a Skilful Player on an Instrument 60. Upon Fly-blows 61. Of Man by Nature 62. Of Physick 63. Upon a Pair of Spectacles 64. Upon our being afraid of small Creatures 65. Upon our being afraid of the Apparition of Evil Spirits 66. Upon the Disobedient Child 67. Upon the Boy on his Hobby-horse 68. Upon the Image in the Eye 69. Upon the Weather-cock 70. Upon a Sheet of white Paper 71. Upon the Boy dull at his Book 72. Upon Time and Eternity 73. Upon Fire 74. Of Beauty FINIS * as to his Godhead * as to his Godhead