MAY YOU LIKE IT.

BY A

COUNTRY. CURATE.

"In brief, acquit thee bravely play the man.
Look not on pleasures as they come, but go.
Defer not the least virtue life's poor span
Make not an ell, by trifling in thy woe.
-If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains;
If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains."

HERBERT.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. BOYS, LUDGATE-HILL.

Maurice, Printer, Fenchurch Street.

DEDICATION.

I GLADLY dedicate my little book to you, who first taught me to understand true and pure affection you first told me of His tender love, who hath called himself "Our Father," and I learned to comprehend that love, because I felt that it resembled your own.-When I think of you, Memory unlocks for me her cabinet of treasures, telling of a thousand dear associations, which even you may have forgotten, but which I can never forget. While I was yet a child, you proved to me the value of affection's slightest gift; for a look from you said more to my heart, than the sweetest words which other lips have spoken; this trifling token, then, of my love and gratitude will possess all the value I would fain endue it with; and I know I need scarcely say to my dearest Mother, in thus offering her my volume, "May you Like it."