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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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A Simile for his Learning.
  
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A Simile for his Learning.

The lushious Grape of Bacchus heating Vine,
When it to ripe maturity is sprung,
Is prest, and so conuerted into wine,
Then clos'd in Caske most tight at head and bung:
For if by chance, it chanceth to take vent:
It spils the wine in colour, strength, and sent,
Eu'n so thy Latine, and thy Greeke was good
Till in thy musty Hogges-head it was put:
And Odly there Commixed with thy blood,
Not wisely kept, nor well, nor tightly shut:
That of the Caske it tastes, so I assure thee,
That few (or none) can (but in sport) endure thee.