Works of John Taylor the Water Poet not included in the folio volume of 1630

Taylor, John (1580-1653)

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A BAWD. A vertuous Bawd, a modest Bawd: As Shee Deserves, reproove, or else applaud.

TAYLORS TRAVELS AND CIRCVLAR PERAMBVLATION, through, and by more then thirty times twelve Signes of the Zodiack, of the Famous Cities of London and Westminster.

Bull, Beare, and Horse, Cut, Curtaile, and Longtaile. VVith Tales, and Tales of Buls, Clenches, and Flashes.

A sad and deplorable loving Elegy consecrated to the living memory of his best assured friend, the generally beloved, M. Richard Wyan deceased, late his Majesties Proctor for the High Court of the Admiralty. Who departed this life at his house at Bryl in Buckinhamshire, on thursday the 16. of August last. 1638.

TRVTH'S TRIUMPH:

OXFORD BESIEDGED, Surprised, Taken, and Pittifully Entred on Munday the second of Iune last, 1645. by the Valiant Forces of the London and Westminster Parliament.

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[1.] To the good or bad Reader.

Read well, and then these following lines are mine,
But read them like a (Botcher) they are thine.
Such vertue from some Readers doth proceed,
They make the Verse the better which they read:
They know their Idioms, Accents, Emphases,
Comma's, Stops, Colons, and Parenthesis,
Full Points, and Periods, briefe Apostraphes;
Good knowing Readers understand all these:
But such as dares my Booke to take in hand,
Who scarce can read, or spell, or understand;
Yet (like Sir reverence Geese) they will be gagling,
And teare my Lines to tatters with their hagling;
Such I request (if Batchelours they bee)
To leave my Book, and learn their A, B, C:
If married men they be, let them take paine,
To exercise their Horn-books once againe.

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[1.] To the good or bad Reader.