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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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[Some may perhaps suppose this Prose is mine]

Some may perhaps suppose this Prose is mine,
But all that know thee, will be sworne 'tis thine:
For (as 'twas said b'a learned Cambridge Scholler)
(Who knows the stile, may smel it by the Coller:)
The Prose (I sweare) is Coriats, he did make it,
And who dares claime it from him, let him take it.