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The Puritans Alphabet
Well ladies and gentlemen if you are reading this I got this from an excerpt from the New England Primer. And this is how the Puritans taught there children the alphabet and that was through rhymes and pictures. And no I don't believe nor follow this religion but I don't need to be a puritans to like the picture or the rhymes. Unfortunately I was unable to find good size pictures all I have is the rhymes so every thing else below the line is the Puritans Alphabet.

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In Adam fall
We sinned all.

Thy life to mend,
This Book attend.

The Cat doth play,
And after slay.

A Dog will bite
A thief at night

An Eagle a flight
Is out of sight

The idle Fool
Is whip at school.

As runs the Glass
Man's life doth pass.

My Book and Heart
Shall never part.

Job feels the rod
And blesses God.

Proud Korah's troops
Were swallowed up.

The Lion bold
The lamb doth hold.

The Moon shines bright
In time of night.

Nightingales sing
In the time of Spring.

The sturdy Oak, it was the tree,
That saved his royal majesty.

Peter denies
His Lord, and cries.

Queen Esther comes in royal state.
To save the Jews from dismal fate.

Rachel doth mourn
For her first born.

Samuel anoints
Whom God appoints.

Time cuts down all,
Both great and small.

Uriah's lovely wife
Made David seek his life.

Whales in the sea
God's voice obey.

Xerxes the great did die,
And so must you and I.

Youth's forward slips
Death soonest nips.

Zaccheus did climb the tree,
His Lord to see.





 
 
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