Or thus, according to the new Philofophy. Venus and Mercury are next, The Sun is in the Centre fixt, And makes a glorious Noon. The Twelve heavenly Signs or Conftellations, or Companies of fixed Stars, thro which the Sun passes in a Year. Aries, or the Ram. my Virgo, the Virgin. m Scorpio, the Scorpion. The Twelve Signs may be thus defcribed. The Virgin and the Scales The The Scorpion, Archer, and Sea-Goat, The Laft TABLE. Perfuade myself that I fhall gratify ma veral Copies compofed for the Ufe of Children at the Writing-School. I. رو 1. Copies containing Moral. Inftructions, beginning with every Letter of the Alphabet. Ttend the advice Of the old and the A wife. Be not angry nor fret, But forgive and forget. T Can you think it no ill, To pilfer and fteal? Do the thing you are bid, Nor be fullen when chid. Envy none for their wealth, Or their honour or health. Fear, worship, and love, The great God above, Р Grow Grow quiet and easy, When fools try to teize ye. Honour father and mother, Love fifter and brother. It is dangerous folly, To jeft with things holy. Keep your books without blot, And your Clothes without fpot. Let your hands do no wrong, Nor backbite with your tongue. Make hafte to obey, Nor dispute or delay. Never ftay within hearing Of curfing and fwearing. Offer God all the prime of your ftrength and your time. Provoke not the poor, Tho he lie at your door. Quash all evil thoughts, And mourn for your faults. Remember the lyar Has his part in hellfire. Shun the wicked and rude, But converfe with the good. Tranf Tranfgrefs not the rule, Or at home, or at school. Vie ftill with the best, And excel all the reft. When you are at your play, Take heed what you fay. X Excufe, but with truth, The follies of youth. Yield a little for peace, And let quarrelling cease. Zeal and charity join'd, Make you pious and kind. Note, The Letter X begins no English Word, fo that we must begin that Line with Ex, unless the Reader will chufe this inftead of it, (viz.) Xis fuch a crofs letter, Balks my Morals and Metre. II. Copies containing the whole Alphabet, or the Twenty-four Letters. Knowledge fhall be promoted by frequent exercize. Happy hours are quickly follow'd by amazing vexations. Quick-fighted men by exercize will gain perfection. A dazling triumph quickly flown, Is but a gay vexation. III. Copies composed of Short Letters to teach to write even with ease. Virtue in an eminent ftation raifes our esteem. Art comes in to imitate or affift nature. A covetous, or an envious man, is never at reft. In Verfe Aftronomers can trace A comet's various race. ods Nor fnow, nor ice, nor rain, Were ever fent in vain.js No meaner creatures can Converse or act as man. Here no man is fecure To fin or mourn no more to go moon Lot Lift-loh ( |