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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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[He giues himselfe an honest good report]

He giues himselfe an honest good report,
And to himselfe he is beholden for't:
Yet 'twixt the greatest knaue and him, I weene,
Ther's thus much ods, A pair of sheers between.