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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

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[Bright Cassia Fistula was wondrous sad]
  
  
  
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[Bright Cassia Fistula was wondrous sad]

Bright Cassia Fistula was wondrous sad,
To heare Zarzaparillas great mis-hap,
And Coloquintida was raging mad,
When Saxafrage was set in Rubarbs lap;
Dame Lickorish was in a monstrous fume,
Against the lushious Reasons of the sunne,
And Trinidado smoake auoids the roome,
Whil'st Gum-armoniack sweares she is vndone;
Vnguentum album is so pale and wan,
That Paracelsus plaister mournes in black.
The Spanish Eleborus strongly can
Make Lignum vita's hide with neezing crack:
Lo, thus with vnguents, plaisters, oyles, and drugges,
We coniure vp the fierce infernall bugges.