LIX. Upon a Skilful Player on an Instrument.
HE that can play well on an Instrument,
Will take the Ear, and captivate the Mind,
With Mirth, or Sadness: For that it is bent
Thereto as Musick, in it, place doth find.
A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.
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- Title
- A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.
- Author
- Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for N.P. and sold by the booksellers in London,
- 1686.
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Page 66
But if one hears that hath therein no skill,
(As often Musick lights of such a chance)
Of its brave Notes, they soon be weary will;
And there are some can neither sing nor dance.
Comparison.
Unto him that thus skilfully doth play,
God doth compare a Gospel-Minister,
That rightly preacheth (and doth Godly pray)
Applying truly what doth thence infer.
This man, whether of Wrath or Grace he preach,
So skilfully doth handle ev'ry Word;
And by his Saying, doth the heart so reach,
That it doth joy or sigh before the Lord.
But some there be, which, as the Bruit, doth lie
Under the Word, without the least advance
God-ward: Such do despise the Ministry,
They weep not at it, neither to it dance.