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A book for boys and girls

or, Country Rhimes for Children. By J. B. [John Bunyan]

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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.