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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>A godly new Ballad, Intituled, A dozen of Points.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L>A dozen of Points you may here read,</L>
<L>Whereon each Chri&s;tians &s;oul may feed.</L>
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<LG>
<L>THe gift is &s;mal, a dozen of points,</L>
<L>Wherewith I'de wi&s;h you knit your joynts,</L>
<L>K&eacute;ep well the &s;ame and credit me.</L>
<L>Thy life mo&s;t pure and ju&s;t &s;hall be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The fir&s;t Point's this I wi&s;h you k&eacute;ep,</L>
<L>Is that at night before you &s;l&eacute;ep:</L>
<L>Still &s;&eacute;e you ask God forgivene&s;s</L>
<L>Of all your &s;ins and wickedne&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;econd Point is this I &s;ay,</L>
<L>When thou do&s;t &s;ee the chearful day,</L>
<L>Ari&s;e and prai&s;e the God of might</L>
<L>That hath defended th&eacute;e all night.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The third is this that thou would&s;t require,</L>
<L>And on thy bended knees de&s;ire,</L>
<L>The God of heaven to be thy &s;tay,</L>
<L>For to pre&s;erve th&eacute;e night and day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The fourth doth bid th&eacute;e to beware,</L>
<L>And to avoid the &s;ubtil &s;nare,</L>
<L>For Satan with his crafty power</L>
<L>Doth &s;&eacute;ek mens &s;ouls for to devour.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The fifth good coun&s;el doth thee give,</L>
<L>And warn thee well whil&s;t thou do&s;t live,</L>
<L>To k&eacute;ep thy con&s;cience clear and pure</L>
<L>Then God will ble&s;s thee to be &s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;ixth of the&s;e my Points do will</L>
<L>That thou devi&s;e no &s;ubtle skil,</L>
<L>Whereby to work thy Neighbors wo,</L>
<L>Take heed I &s;ay and do not &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;eventh &s;aith, defraud no man,</L>
<L>But deal as ju&s;tly as you can;</L>
<L>The Widow and the Fatherle&s;s defend</L>
<L>So God will ble&s;s th&eacute;e to the end.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The eighth doth bid th&eacute;e more or le&s;s</L>
<L>Still to beware of drunkenne&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>For drunkenne&s;s is abhor'd of God</L>
<L>On whom he lays his heavy rod.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The ninth &s;aith, Fornication fly,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e wicked Harlots will make thee die:</L>
<L>Thy body they'l con&s;ume I &s;ay,</L>
<L>And bring thy &s;oul unto decay.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The tenth doth &s;ay, do not for&s;wear,</L>
<L>Fal&s;e witne&s;s again&s;t no man bear:</L>
<L>Let no affection &s;way thy mind</L>
<L>The eye of Iu&s;tice for to blind.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The eleventh enjoyns thee not to de&s;ire</L>
<L>Thy Neighbors goods for to require,</L>
<L>But the ten Commandements ob&s;erve,</L>
<L>So &s;halt thou &s;tand and never &s;werve.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The twelfth &s;aith, fear the God of might,</L>
<L>And truely &s;erve him day and night:</L>
<L>Obey the King as 'tis thy part</L>
<L>To thy Countrey bear a faithful heart.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>S&eacute;e the&s;e my Points thou do&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Even when thou thy &s;elf do&s;t re&s;t:</L>
<L>K&eacute;ep well each one in his degr&eacute;e,</L>
<L>And knit them fa&s;t and credit m<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
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<HEAD>The Angell <HI>Gabriell,</HI> his Salutation to the <UNCLEAR>Ble&s;&s;ed</UNCLEAR> Virgin <HI>MARY.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>To the tune of, <HI>The Blazing Torch.</HI></OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of the Virgin Mary and Christ child</FIGDESC>
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<LG>
<L>WHen righteous <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> wedded was</L>
<L>to <HI>I&s;raels</HI> Hebrew maid,</L>
<L>A glorious Angel came from Heaven,</L>
<L>who to the Virgin &s;aid:</L>
<L>Hail ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Mary</HI> full of grace,</L>
<L>the Lord remains in thee:</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt conceive and bear a Son</L>
<L>thy Saviour to be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That's wondrous &s;trange quoth <HI>Mary</HI> then</L>
<L>I &s;hould conceive and breed,</L>
<L>Being never toucht by mortal man,</L>
<L>but pure in thought and d&eacute;ed.</L>
<L>Fear not, quoth <HI>Gabriel</HI> by and by,</L>
<L>it is no work of man:</L>
<L>But only God's, ordain'd at fir&s;t</L>
<L>before the world began.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which heavenly me&s;&s;age &s;he believes,</L>
<L>and did to <HI>Jury</HI> go,</L>
<L>Thr&eacute;e moneths with her friends to &s;tay,</L>
<L>Gods ble&s;&s;ed will to &s;how:</L>
<L>And then return'd with <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> back,</L>
<L>her Husband m&eacute;ek and mild,</L>
<L>Who thought it &s;trange his wife &s;hould be</L>
<L>untoucht, thus grown with child.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wherefore (thought he) to &s;hun that &s;hame</L>
<L>he thought her to for&s;ake:</L>
<L>But that Gods Angel in his &s;l&eacute;ep</L>
<L>Gods mind did undertake.</L>
<L>Fear not ju&s;t <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> this thy wife</L>
<L>is &s;till a &s;potle&s;&s;e Maid,</L>
<L>And no con&s;ent to &s;in (quoth he)</L>
<L>again&s;t her can be laid.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For &s;he is purely Maid and Wife,</L>
<L>the mother of Gods own Heir,</L>
<L>The Babe of Heaven, and ble&s;&s;ed Lamb,</L>
<L>of <HI>I&s;raels</HI> &s;tock &s;o fair:</L>
<L>To &s;ave lo&s;t &s;h&eacute;ep to Satan &s;old,</L>
<L>whom <HI>Adam</HI> lo&s;t by fraud,</L>
<L>When fir&s;t in <HI>Edens</HI> Paradi&s;e</L>
<L>the Lord had them be&s;tow'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus <HI>Mary</HI> with her Husband kind,</L>
<L>together did remain,</L>
<L>Vntil the time of <HI>Ie&s;us</HI> birth</L>
<L>as Scripture doth make plain.</L>
<L>Thus Mother, Wife, and Virgin pure,</L>
<L>our Saviour &s;weet conceiv'd,</L>
<L>All three in one to bring us joy,</L>
<L>of which we were bereav'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sing prai&s;es then both old and young,</L>
<L>to him which wrought &s;uch things,</L>
<L>That thus without the help of man</L>
<L>&s;ent us the King of Kings:</L>
<L>Which is of &s;uch a ble&s;&s;ed power,</L>
<L>that with his word can quell</L>
<L>The World, the Fle&s;h, and by his Death</L>
<L>could conquer death and hell.</L>
</LG>
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<P>Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere and W. Gilbert&s;on.</P>
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