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The title page will show if there thou look	A
Who are the proper subjects of this book	A
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They're boys and girls of all sorts and degrees	B
From those of age to children on the knees	B
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Thus comprehensive am I in my notions	C
They tempt me to it by their childish motions	C
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We now have boys with beards and girls that be	D
Big as old women wanting gravity	D
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Then do not blame me 'cause I thus describe them	E
Flatter I may not lest thereby I bribe them	E
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To have a better judgment of themselves	F
Than wise men have of babies on their shelves	F
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Their antic tricks fantastic modes and way	G
Show they like very boys and girls do play	G
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With all the frantic fopperies of this age	H
And that in open view as on a stage	H
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Our bearded men do act like beardless boys	I
Our women please themselves with childish toys	I
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Our ministers long time by word and pen	J
Dealt with them counting them not boys but men	J
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Thunderbolts they shot at them and their toys	I
But hit them not 'cause they were girls and boys	I
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The better charg'd the wider still they shot	K
Or else so high these dwarfs they touched not	K
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Instead of men they found them girls and boys	I
Addict to nothing as to childish toys	I
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Wherefore good reader that I save them may	G
I now with them the very dotterel play	G
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And since at gravity they make a tush	L
My very beard I cast behind a bush	L
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And like a fool stand fing'ring of their toys	I
And all to show them they are girls and boys	I
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Nor do I blush although I think some may	G
Call me a baby 'cause I with them play	G
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I do't to show them how each fingle fangle	M
On which they doting are their souls entangle	M
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As with a web a trap a gin or snare	N
And will destroy them have they not a care	N
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Paul seemed to play the fool that he might gain	O
Those that were fools indeed if not in grain	O
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And did it by their things that they might know	P
Their emptiness and might be brought unto	Q
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What would them save from sin and vanity	D
A noble act and full of honesty	D
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Yet he nor I would like them be in vice	R
While by their playthings I would them entice	R
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To mount their thoughts from what are childish toys	I
To heaven for that's prepared for girls and boys	I
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Nor do I so confine myself to these	B
As to shun graver things I seek to please	B
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Those more compos'd with better things than toys	I
Though thus I would be catching girls and boys	I
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Wherefore if men have now a mind to look	A
Perhaps their graver fancies may be took	A
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With what is here though but in homely rhymes	S
But he who pleases all must rise betimes	S
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Some I persuade me will be finding fault	T
Concluding here I trip and there I halt	T
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No doubt some could those grovelling notions raise	S
By fine spun terms that challenge might the bays	S
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But should all men be forc'd to lay aside	U
Their brains that cannot regulate the tide	U
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By this or that man's fancy we should have	V
The wise unto the fool become a slave	W
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What though my text seems mean my morals be	D
Grave as if fetch'd from a sublimer tree	D
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And if some better handle can a fly	X
Than some a text why should we then deny	X
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Their making proof or good experiment	Y
Of smallest things great mischiefs to prevent	Z
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Wise Solomon did fools to piss ants send	A2
To learn true wisdom and their lies to mend	A2
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Yea God by swallows cuckoos and the ass	S
Shows they are fools who let that season pass	S
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Which he put in their hand that to obtain	O
Which is both present and eternal gain	O
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I think the wiser sort my rhymes may slight	B2
But what care I the foolish will delight	B2
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To read them and the foolish God has chose	S
And doth by foolish things their minds compose	S
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And settle upon that which is divine	C2
Great things by little ones are made to shine	C2
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I could were I so pleas'd use higher strains	S
And for applause on tenters stretch my brains	S
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But what needs that the arrow out of sight	B2
Does not the sleeper nor the watchman fright	B2
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To shoot too high doth but make children gaze	S
'Tis that which hits the man doth him amaze	S
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And for the inconsiderableness	S
Of things by which I do my mind express	S
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May I by them bring some good thing to pass	S
As Samson with the jawbone of an ass	S
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Or as brave Shamgar with his ox's goad	D2
Both being things not manly nor for war in mode	D2
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I have my end though I myself expose	S
To scorn God will have glory in the close	S

John Bunyan

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