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Divine Emblems, or Temporal Things Spiritualised, &.

First published in 1686 as A Book for Boys and Girls, or Country Rhimes for Children in verse on seventy-four things, it was not illustrated until 1707, having been reduced to forty-nine things. These illustrations come from a mid-nineteenth century version that in turn drew upon the 1757 tenth edition of E. Dilly.The artist is unknown.

01	aThe barren fig tree	26	The thief
02	aThe lark and the fowler	27	The child with the bird on the bush
03	aThe vine tree	28	Moses and his wife
04	aThe egg	29	The rose bush
05	aThe fowls flying in the air	30	The going down of the sun
06	aThe Lord's prayer	31	The frog
07	aThe peep of day	32	The whipping of a top
08	aThe flint in the water	33	The pismire
09	aThe fish in the water	34	The beggar
10	aThe swallow	35	The horse and his rider
11	aThe bee	36	The candle falling to the ground
12	aThe lowering morning	37	The penny loaf
13	aThe over-much kindness	38	The boy and watchmaker
14	aThe candle	39	The looking glass
15	aThe ordinances	40	The love of Christ
16	aThe sun's reflection upon the clouds	41	The cackling of a hen
17	aThe apparel	42	The hour-glass
18	aThe sinner and the spider	43	The snail
19	aThe day before the sun-rising	44	The spouse of Christ
20	aThe mole in the ground	45	The skilful instrument player
21	aThe cuckoo	46	The man by nature
22	aThe boy and the butterfly	47	The disobedient child
23	aThe fly at the candle	48	The sheet of white paper
24	aThe rising of the sun	49	The fire
25	aThe promising fruitfulness of a tree
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