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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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[Dick Swash drew out his three-pil'd blunted blade]

Dick Swash drew out his three-pil'd blunted blade,
And slasht in twaine the equinoctiall line:
Tom Thumb did through th' Arabian deserts wade,
Where Castor and his brother Pollux shine,
The threed-bare flap-Iacks of the westerne Iles,
Exasperate the Marble Sithian Snow,
Dame Venus traueld fifty thousand miles,
To see the bounds of Nilus ebbe and flow.
The Gormundizing Quagmires of the East,
Ingurgitate the Eremanthean Bull:
And rude rebounding Sagitarius Ceast
To pipe Leualtoes to Gonzagaes Trull,
The Adriaticke Polcats sate carousing,
And hidebound Gogmagog his shirt was lowsing,
Sweet Semi-circled Cynthia plaid at maw,
The whilst Endimion ran the wild-goose chase.
Great Bacchus with his Cros-bow kild a daw,
And sullen Saturne smil'd with pleasant face.
The nine-fold Bugbeares of the Caspian lake,
Sate whistling Ebon horne-pipes to their Ducks,
Madge-howlet straight for ioy her Girdle brake,
And rugged Satyrs friskd like Stagges and Bucks.
The vntam'd tumbling fifteene footed Goat,
With promulgation of the Lesbian shores,
Confronted Hydra in a sculler Boat,
At which the mighty mountaine Taurus rores,
Meane time great Sultan Soliman was borne,
And Atlas blew his rustick rumbling horne.