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hus, having show’d you what I see Of heaven, I now will tell You also, after search, what be The damned wights of hell. And O, that they who read my line…
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…
Thy price one penny is in time of… In famine doubled, ’tis from one t… Yea, no man knows what price on th… When there is but one penny loaf t… Comparison.
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…
The love of Christ, poor I! may t… But ’tis unsearchable. O! there i… Its large dimensions can comprehen… Should they dilate thereon world w… When we had sinned, in his zeal he…
The bee goes out, and honey home d… And some who seek that honey find… Now would’st thou have the honey,… From stinging, in the first place… Comparison.
O Wondrous dreamer, with thy powe… How all our pilgrim-life thy dream… Our load of sin, our hopes, our do… The fearful battle with the foe ma… And Beulah’s beauteous land, wher…
But all this while, where’s he who… Drives night away and beautifies o… Where’s he whose goodly face doth… And show us what the darksome nigh… Where’s he that thaws our ice, dri…
This homely bush doth to mine eyes… A very fair, yea, comely ruddy ros… This rose doth also bow its head t… Saying, Come, pluck me, I thy ros… Yet offer I to gather rose or bud…
hat ails this fly thus desperately… A combat with the candle? Will sh… To clash at light? Away, thou sil… Thus doing thou wilt burn thy wing… But ’tis a folly her advice to giv…
These lines I at this time presen… To all that will them heed, Wherein I show to what intent God saith, Convert[2] with speed. For these four things come on apac…
Two sacraments I do believe there… Baptism and the Supper of the Lor… Both mysteries divine, which do to… By God’s appointment, benefit aff… But shall they be my God, or shal…
He that can play well on an instru… Will take the ear, and captivate t… With mirth or sadness; for that it… Thereto, as music in it place doth… But if one hears that hath therein…
This subject is unto the foulest p… Or fairest handled by the sons of… ‘Twill also show what is upon it w… Be it wisely, or nonsense for want… Each blot and blur it also will ex…
Thou simple bird, what makes thou… Look, there’s the fowler, pr’ythee… Do’st not behold the net? Look th… Venture a little further, thou art… Is there not room enough in all th…