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El Sembrador, or, the Sower.
All are Solicitous, who grounds possesse,
To know
Both when and how to sow,
That promise may to them the Most increase.
To know
Both when and how to sow,
That promise may to them the Most increase.
And by the severall Seasons, Change, or Wain,
Full, or
Increase, to stir them for
What might be properest of every grain.
Full, or
Increase, to stir them for
What might be properest of every grain.
Nor do they search so deep as for a Mine
Of Gold;
Yet what's the fittest mold
For every seed, can readily define.
Of Gold;
Yet what's the fittest mold
For every seed, can readily define.
And doth not great neglect and sloath appear
In these,
Whom Barley, Wheat, Rie, Pease,
Affect alone in being cheap or dear:
In these,
Whom Barley, Wheat, Rie, Pease,
Affect alone in being cheap or dear:
Whilst that the Fallows of their hearts, untill'd,
No more
Can promise than before,
To be with Cockle-thoughts and Darnell fill'd.
No more
Can promise than before,
To be with Cockle-thoughts and Darnell fill'd.
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For when the Bells do seem all In to Chime,
They'll say
This is some Holyday;
So never frame a work unto the time.
They'll say
This is some Holyday;
So never frame a work unto the time.
All that they pray, or hear, or read, or do,
Shall be
Choak'd with the Brierie
Cares of this world, which they are Slaves unto.
Shall be
Choak'd with the Brierie
Cares of this world, which they are Slaves unto.
Before the Reverend Preacher can divide
His Text,
Some one soon tels't the next,
Yet's robb'd of it; For 't falls by th' high-wayes side.
His Text,
Some one soon tels't the next,
Yet's robb'd of it; For 't falls by th' high-wayes side.
An Other gets a Point by th' end, and may
Go on
Till Persecution
Declare him Niobe: then he must stay.
Go on
Till Persecution
Declare him Niobe: then he must stay.
As when a Soil's prepar'd with art and Care,
The Hinde
Such Crops doth alwayes finde,
As to's endevours answerable are.
The Hinde
Such Crops doth alwayes finde,
As to's endevours answerable are.
So let our Hearts be throughly wed of Sin,
And then
They'll prove good ground agen,
And bring us more than thousand profits in.
And then
They'll prove good ground agen,
And bring us more than thousand profits in.
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