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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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In defence of the true Annagram I made of William Fennor. Nv Uillany for mee.

That I thy Annagram did truely finish,
No letter did I adde, or none diminish:
For which Nu Villany for me's the same,
True Annagram of William Fennors name.
Thou think'st to make thy Reputation stretch,
And out of Normandy thy name wilt fetch:
Where men may see thy folly plaine appeare,
Thou wilt (forsooth) be called Le Fognier.
Le Fognier, out alas thy wits are fogg'd;
I can but laugh to see thee mir'd and bogg'd,
But holla, holla, hobby, hold my fist,
I'l helpe thee out of this blacke foggy mist.