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

Taylor, John (1580-1653)

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST COLLECTION.

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TAYLORS ARITHMETICKE,

A MOST LEARNED AND Eloquent Speech, spoken (or delivered in the Honourable House of Commons at VVestminster,) by the most Learned Lawyer Miles Corbet Esquire, Recorder of great Yarmouth, and Burgesse of the same, on the 32 day of July last, taken in short hand by Nockey and Tom Dunne his Clarkes, and revised by John Taylor.

[Ten thousand (such as we) can ne're devise]

THE HONORABLE, AND MEMORABLE Foundations, Erections, Raisings, and Ruines, of divers Cities, Townes, Castles, and other Pieces of Antiquitie, within ten Shires and Counties of this Kingdome

Englands Comfort, and Londons Ioy: Expressed in the Royall, Triumphant, and Magnificent Entertainment of our Dread Soveraigne Lord, King Charles, at his blessed and safe returne from Scotland, on Thursday the 25. of Novem. 1641.

THE HELLISH PARLIAMENT Being a COUNTER-PARLIAMENT To this in England, containing the Demonstrative Speeches and Statutes of that Court.

A Delicate, Dainty, Damnable DIALOGVE, Between the Devill and a Jesuite.

TAILORS TRAVELS, from LONDON, TO THE ISLE of WIGHT: With his Returne, and occasion of his Iourney.

THE Essence, Quintessence, Insence, Innocence, Lye-sence, & Magnifisence OF Nonsence upon Sence: OR, SENCEuponNONSENCE.

FIFTH COLLECTION

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39. Wit bought too deare.

They say, Wit's never good till it be bought,
And being bought too deare it proves stark naught:
Such wit had they whose ill got pounds and pence
Bought bloudy war, and hunted Peace from hence.

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39. Wit bought too deare.