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A book for boys and girls

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

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LXXI. Upon the Boy dull at his Book.

Some Boys have Wit enough to sport and play,
Who at their Books are Block-heads day by day.
Some men are arch enough at any Vice,
But Dunces in the way to Paradice.