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Works of John Taylor the Water Poet not included in the folio volume of 1630

Taylor, John (1580-1653)

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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST COLLECTION.
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SECOND COLLECTION
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THE Suddaine Turne of ffortunes wheele;
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The Fearefull Summer:
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Drinke and welcome:
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Iohn Taylors last Voyage, AND ADVENTVRE, PERFORMED from the twentieth of Iuly last 1641. to the tenth of September following.
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Heads of all Fashions.
  
MAD VERSE, SAD VERSE, GLAD Verse and Bad Verse.
  
REBELLS Anathematized, And Anatomized:
  
THE EXALE-TATION OF ALE The ancient Liquor of this REALME
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EPIGRAMMES, Written on purpose to be read: WITH A PROVISO, That they may be understood by the READER; Being Ninety in Number: Besides, two new made Satyres that attend them.
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[1.] To the good or bad Reader.
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2. Of friends.
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3. Unity, Enmity, Amity.
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4. Of Credit.
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5. Honest Jone.
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6. Teeth and Hornes.
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7. Of Seales and Armes.
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8. Thrifty preaching.
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9. Devout Margery.
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10. Things done by neither wise men or fooles.
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11. Labour in vaine.
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12. Hang pride.
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13. Another.
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14. Another to the same tune.
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15. Just payment.
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16. Content.
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17. Sufficient knowledge.
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18. Of Death.
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19. Well and ill.
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20. Beware Hypocrisie.
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21. Of the fashion.
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22. Of speech.
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23. On long and short life.
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24. Of true friendships use.
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25. Better lost then kept.
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26. Extreames.
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27. A fig for Fortune.
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28. Good gain'd from bad.
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29. How I would be esteemed.
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30. Reverence to Saints.
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31. Do thy worst blind Fortune.
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32. Want of knowledge.
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33. Had I wist.
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34. Fast and loose.
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35. A lye, and no lye.
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36. True Love.
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37. Treasure.
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38. To be rul'd, or not rul'd.
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39. Wit bought too deare.
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40. All comes to one passe.
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41. A hopefull Boy.
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42. A plain case.
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43. All is true.
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44. Well grown is good.
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45. Few faults.
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46. A chac'd unchaste woman.
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47. To be quiet or unquiet.
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48. Avoyd Hypocrisie.
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49. Freedome and Bondage.
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50. Glorious Vanity.
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51. Of just anger.
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52. Wilfull Will.
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53. A brace of Beagles.
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54. A good Memento.
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55. Mutability.
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56. Good Greatnesse.
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57. Of Angels.
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58. The Crosse brings glory.
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59. Words are winde.
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60. Feares and jealousies.
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61. B and C.
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62. Adoration.
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63. Honest Besse May.
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64. Quick and free passage.
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65. Desperate Dick.
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67. A slovenly Schollar.
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68. To a scornfull Reader.
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69. Manna and Mammon.
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70. Blind zeale.
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71. On the late Kings poore servants.
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72. A good faith.
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73. Gluttony inward and outward.
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74. Sir reverence love.
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75. Kates kind Answer.
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76. Brave resolution.
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77. Leggs worthy of love.
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78. Paine with pleasure.
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79. Friends are better then Lovers.
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80. Of lying and giving.
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81. Great Place, small Grace.
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82. A great Witch.
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83. Repast, and Repose.
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84. Sunday.
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85. Sabaoth.
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86. A sweet Saint.
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87. Want and abundance.
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88. A hard businesse.
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89. Thoughts and words.
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90. Good mornings practise.
  
A SATYRE: Hypocrisie discovered.
  
A Satyre against swearing, equivocation, mentall reservation, and detestable dissimulation.
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THE CERTAIN TRAVAILES of an uncertain JOURNEY, Begun on Tuesday the 9. of August, and ended on Saturday the 3. of September following, 1653.
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THIRD COLLECTION
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FOURTH COLLECTION
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FIFTH COLLECTION

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51

R.

Epigram. [Rose]

Hee were a man of Art that had the skill
Rose water from these Roses to distill:
I know theres good Rose Wine, but for Rose Water
I oft have still'd, and still find no such matter.
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Epigram. [Ram]

At Ram or Rams head (be it knowne to all)
Are Wines Predominant and Capitall,
To set a Horseman quite beside the Saddle,
And make a Footman's Pericranion Addle.
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Epigram. [Sun]

The Grape is ripened with bright Phœbus shine,
Which shewes that at the Sun there is good wine:
Beware of being Sun-burn't e're thou goe,
Drink civilly, make not thy friend thy Foe.

Epigram. [Star]

Hee that by these eight Stars can Calculate,
Iudge of Nativities, and descant Fate:
Yet are their Influences good and bad,
Some gaine wit by them, some lose that they had.
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Epigram. [Ship]

Here is a Fleet of Ships, ne're crost the Maine,
To bring Commodities from France or Spaine:
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They ne're fear'd Tempest, Pyrat, Rock, or Wrack,
Yet are wel fraight with French wine and good Sack.

Epigram. [Swan]

These are strange Swans that neither swim or sinke
And all their maintenance is onely drink:
And I in lofty Verse his praise will sing,
That can but pluck a Feather from their wing.
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Epigram. [Salutation]

When men doe meet, and courteously Salute,
They at the Salutation may dispute:
Some for their profit, some for their love or pleasure,
Whilst all their wine is in and out of Measure.
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