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

Taylor, John (1580-1653)

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST COLLECTION.

Taylor on Thame Isis:

The Old, Old, Very Old Man:

Part of this Summers Travels.

1640. The Praise of the Needle.

THE PRAISE OF THE NEEDLE.

Here follow certaine Sonnets in the Honorable memory of Queenes and great Ladies, who haue bin famous for their rare Inventions and practise with the Needle.

2 Katharine first married to Arthur, Prince of Wales, and afterward to Henry the 8. King of England.

3 Mary, Queene of England, and wife to Philip King of Spaine.

4 Elizabeth Queene of England, and Daughter to King Henry the eight.

5 The Right Honourable, Vertuous, and learned Lady Mary, late Countesse of Pembrooke.

6 The Right Honourable and religious Lady Elizabeth Dormer, Wife to the late Right Honourable, the Lord Robert Dormer deceased.

To all degrees of both sexes, that love or liue by the laudable imployment of the Needle.

Differing Worships,

A SVVARME OF SECTARIES, AND SCHISMATIQVES:

RELIGIONS ENEMIES.

A full and compleat Answer against the Writer of a late Volume set forth, entituled A Tale in a Tub,

A Plea for PREROGATIVE:

MAD FASHIONs, OD FASHIONS, All out of Fashions,

AQUA-MUSÆ:

[1646.] The Complaint of Christmas.

THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIES VVellcome to his owne House, Truly called the Honour of Hampton COVRT,

1648 An Ironicall Expostulation.

1649. Wanderings to see the Wonders of the West.

CHRISTMAS IN & OVT:

A SHORT RELATION OF A LONG IOURNEY Made ROUND or OVALL

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63. Honest Besse May.

Besse May may honest be, who e're sayes nay,
But May once past, there are eleven months more:
'Tis mighty odds, and I will never lay
Eleven to one: Besse May may be a Whore.

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63. Honest Besse May.