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A book for boys and girls

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

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XXXVII. Upon the whipping of a Top.

'Tis with the Whip the Boy sets up the Top,
The Whip makes it run round upon it's Toe;
The Whip makes it hither and thither hop:
Tis with the Whip, the Top is made to go.

Comparison.

Our Legalist is like unto this Top,
Without a Whip, he doth not Duty do.
Let Moses whip him, he will skip and hop;
Forbear to whip, he'l neither stand nor go.