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All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet

Being Sixty and three in Number. Collected into one Volume by the Author [i.e. John Taylor]: With sundry new Additions, corrected, reuised, and newly Imprinted

Taylor, John (1580-1653)

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To the Right Honourable THE LORD Marqvesse Hamilton, Master of the Horse to his Maiestie,

TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, THE Lord Steward of his Maiesties Honourable Hovsehold

TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, THE LORD Chamberlaine of his Maiesties most Honourable Hovsehold, PHILIP HERBERT EARLE OFF MONTGOMERY

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[THE SEIGE AND SACKING OF Iervsalem.]

[The Life and Death of the Virgin Mary.]

[SVPERBIÆ FLAGELLVM, OR THE WHIP OF PRIDE.]

[Against Cursing and Swearing.]

[THE FEAREFVLL SVMMER: OR LONDONS CALAMITIE.]

[THE TRAVELS OF TWELVE-PENCE.]

[AN ARMADO, OR NAVY OF SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS, WHO HAVE THE ART TO SAYLE BY LAND, AS WELL AS BY SEA.]

[THE BEGGER.]

[TAYLORS Goose.]

IACKE A LENT HIS BEGINNING AND ENTERTAINMENT: with the mad prankes of his Gentleman-Vsher Shroue-Tuesday that goes before him, and his Footman Hunger attending.

THE PENNYLES PILGRIMAGE, OR THE MONEY-LESSE PERAMBVLATION, OF JOHN TAYLOR, ALIAS, THE KINGS MAIESTIES WATER-POET.

THE GREAT EATER, OR PART OF THE ADMIRABLE TEETH AND STOMACKS EXPLOITS OF NICHOLAS WOOD, OF HARRISOM IN THE COVNTY OF KENT.

[SIR Gregory Nonsence HIS NEVVES FROM NO PLACE.]

[A very Merrie VVherrie-Ferry-VOYAGE.]

[THE GREAT O TOOLE.]

A DISCOVERY BY SEA, FROM London TO Salisbvry.

The Scourge of Basenesse: OR, The old Lerry, with a new Kicksey, and a new-cum twang, with the old Winsey

Taylors Motto.

ODCOMBS COMPLAINT:

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The Authour in his owne defence.

TO THE GENTLEMEN READERS, THAT vnderstand A.B. from a Battledore.

A SAD, IOYFVLL, LAMENTABLE, DELIGHTFVLL, MERRY-GO-SORRY ELEGY OR FVNERALL POEM VPON the supposed death of the famous Cosmographicall Surueior, and Historiographicall Relator, Mr Thomas Coriat of Odcomb.

CERTAINE SONNETS, IN PRAISE OF Mr Thomas THE DECEASED; FASHIONED OF diuers stufts, as mockado, sustian, stand-further off, and Motly, all which the Author dedicates to the immortall memory of the famous Odcombian traueller.

THE EIGHTH VVONDER OF THE VVORLD:

Laugh, and be Fat:

MASTER THOMAS CORIAT TO HIS FRIENDS IN ENGLAND SENDS GREETING,

[A BAWD.]

[A WHORE.]

[A THIEFE.]

THE PRAISE AND VERTVE OF a JAYLE and JAYLERS:

The Vnnaturall Father:

[TAYLORS REVENGE.]

FENNORS DEFENCE: OR, I AM YOVR FIRST MAN.

A CAST OVER THE VVATER, BY JOHN TAYLOR.

The praise of cleane Linnen. VVITH THE COMMENDABLE VSE OF THE LAVNDRES.

VVit and Mirth: CHARGEABLY COLLECTED OVT OF TAVERNS, ORDINARIES, Innes, Bowling-Greenes and Allyes, Alehouses, Tobacco-shops, Highwayes, and Water-passages.

A DOGGE OF VVARRE, OR, The Trauels of Drunkard, the famous Curre of the Round Woollstaple in Westminster.

The VVorld runnes on vvheeles: OR, Oddes betwixt Carts and Coaches.

The Nipping or Snipping of ABVSES: OR, The Wooll-gathering of Wit.

A MEMORIALL OF ALL THE ENGLISH MONARCHS, being in number 151. from Brute to King Charles.

A BRIEFE REMEMBRANCE OF ALL THE ENGLISH MONARCHS, from the Normans Conquest, vntill this present.

A LIVING SADNES IN DVTY CONSECRATED TO THE IMMORTALL memory of our late Deceased all-beloued Soueraigne Lord, the Peerelesse Paragon of Princes, Iames, King of great Britaine, France and Ireland; who departed this Life at his Manour of Theobalds, on Sunday the 27. of March 1625.

FOR The sacred memoriall of the great, Noble, and ancient Example of Vertue and Honor, the Illustrious and welbeloued Lord, Charles Howard, Earle of Nottingham, Iustice in Eyre of all his Maiesties Forrests, Parks, and Chases on this side Trent; Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter, and one of the Lords of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell;

A FVNERALL ELEGIE, IN THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE Right Reuerend, Right Honourable and Learned Father in GOD, Lancelot, Lord Bishop of VVinchester, Deane of his Maiesties Chappell, Prelate of the Right Honourable Order of the Garter, and one of the Lords of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Covncell:

[A Funerall Elegie vpon the death of the Duke of Richmond and Linox.]

GREAT BRITAINE ALL IN BLACKE.

THE MVSES MOVRNING:

A FVNERALL ELEGY: DEPLORING THE DEATH OF THE TRVE Patterne, Patrone, and mirrour of Honour, the Right Honorable Lord, Iohn Ramsey, Lord Viscount Hadington, Earle of Holdernesse,

THE VVATER-CORMORANT.

TAYLORS WATER-WORKE:

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The Authour in his owne defence.

If any where my lines doe fall out lame,
I made them so, in merriment and game:
For, be they wide, or side, or long, or short,
All's one to me, I writ them but in sport;
Yet I would haue the Reader thus much know,
That when I lift my simple skill to show
In poesie, I could both read and spell:
I know my Dactils, and my Spondees well;
My true proportion, and my equall measure,
What accent must be short, and what at leasure,
How to transpose my words from place to place,
To giue my poesie the greater grace,
Either in Pastorall or Comick straine,
In Tragedy, or any other vaine,
In nipping Satyrs, or in Epigrams,
In Odes, in Elegies, or Anagrams,
In eare-bewitching rare Hexameters,
Or in Iämbicke, or Pentameters:
I know these like a Sculler, not a Scholler,
And therefore Poet, pray asswage your choller,
If as a theefe in writing you enuy me,
Before you iudge me, doe your worst and try me.

I. T.