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Methinks I see a sight most excel… All sorts of birds fly in the firm… Some great, some small, all of a d… Mine eye affecting, pleasant to my… Look how they tumble in the wholes…
There’s one rides very sagely on t… Showing that he affects the graves… Another rides tantivy, or full tro… To show much gravity he matters no… Lo, here comes one amain, he rides…
Who would true Valour see Let him come hither; One here will Constant be, Come Wind, come Weather. There’s no Discouragement,
What, hast thou run thy race, art… Thou seemest angry, why dost on us… Yea, wrap thy head with clouds and… As threatening to withdraw from us… O leave us not! When once thou hi…
This glass, when made, was, by the… The sum of sixty minutes to fulfil… Time, more nor less, by it will ou… But just an hour, and then the gla… Man’s life we will compare unto th…
When I do this begin to apprehend… My heart, my soul, and mind, begin… To God-ward, and sincerely for to… His son, his ways, his people, and… With brokenness of spirit after hi…
The egg’s no chick by falling from… Nor man a Christian, till he’s bo… The egg’s at first contained in th… Men, afore grace, in sins and dark… The egg, when laid, by warmth is m…
This watch my father did on me bes… A golden one it is, but 'twill not… Unless it be at an uncertainty: But as good none as one to tell a… When ’tis high day my hand will st…
He that is down need fear no fall, He that is low, no pride; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide. I am content with what I have,
Death, as a king rampant and stout The world he dare engage; He conquers all, yea, and doth rou… The great, strong, wise, and sage. No king so great, nor prince so st…
But be the candles down, and scatt… Some lying here, some there? What… Hold, light the candle there that… It you may find the other candles… Light that, I say, and so take up…
The title page will show, if there… Who are the proper subjects of thi… They’re boys and girls of all sort… From those of age to children on t… Thus comprehensive am I in my not…
Eternity is like unto a Ring. Time, like to Measure, doth it se… Measure commences, is a finite thi… The Ring has no beginning, middle…
He wants, he asks, he pleads his p… They within doors do him an alms d… He doth repeat and aggravate his g… But they repulse him, give him no… He begs, they say, Begone; he wil…
The next word that I would unto t… Is how thou mayst attain without d… Those blessed graces, and that hol… Thou dost with so much godly zeal… Thy love to, and thy longing to en…