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A book for boys and girls

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

Bunyan, John (1628-1688)

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Watch-maker.

Your Watch, tho it be good, through want of skill,
May fail to do according to your will.

Suppose the Ballance, Wheels, and Spring be good,
And all things else, unless you understood
To manage it, as Watches ought to be,
Your Watch will still be at Uncertainty.
Come, tell me, do you keep it from the Dust?
Yea wind it also duly up you must.
Take heed (too) that you do not strain the String;
You must be circumspect in ev'ry thing.
Or else your Watch, were it as good again,
Would not with Time, and Tide you entertain.