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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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[The boyling of this wenches eggs I find]

The boyling of this wenches eggs I find,
Much like vnto a greedy mizers mind:
The eggs, the more they boyle are harder still;
The mizer's full, too full, yet wants his fill.