#EnglishWriters
WHEN at the first I took my pen… Thus for to write, I did not unde… That I at all should make a littl… In such a mode: nay, I had undert… To make another; which, when almos…
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…
Who would true Valour see Let him come hither; One here will Constant be, Come Wind, come Weather. There’s no Discouragement,
As ’tis appointed men should die, So judgment is the next That meets them most assuredly; For so saith holy text. Wherefore of judgment I shall now
Thus having heard from Gerizzim,… Next come to Ebal, and you thithe… Not there to curse you, but to let… How God doth curse that soul that… An unbelieving man, a graceless wr…
Tis much to see how over nice some… About the body and household affai… While what’s of worth they slightl… Not doing, or doing it slovenly. Their house must be well furnished…
From God he’s a backslider, Of ways he loves the wider; With wickedness a sider, More venom than a spider. In sin he’s a considerer,
Look yonder, ah! methinks mine eye… Clouds edged with silver, as fine… They look as if they saw that gold… That makes black clouds most beaut… Unto the saints’ sweet incense, or…
This flint, time out of mind, has… Where crystal streams make their c… Yet it abides a flint as much as ’… Before it touched the water, or ca… Its hard obdurateness is not abate…
Children become, while little, our… When they grow bigger, they begin… Their sinful nature prompts them t… And to delight in paths that lead… Their parents’ love and care they…
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…
Wouldst thou have that good, that… That is so much to heavenly things… That it aloft will soar, and alway… Contemplating on blest eternity. That mind that never thinks itself…
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…
Who’s this that cometh from the wi… Like smokey pillars thus perfum’d… Leaning upon her dearest in distre… Led into’s bosom by the Comforter… She’s clothed with the sun, crowne…
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…