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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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[If vp the hill a measur'd mile it be]


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If vp the hill a measur'd mile it be,
Then downe the hill's another mile; I see:
A groat to pay, 4 pence will quit the cost:
What's won in t' hundred, in the shire is lost.