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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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[Here Pride that takes Humility in snuffe]

Here Pride that takes Humility in snuffe,
Is well encountred with a counterbuffe:
One would not giue the wall vnto a knaue,
The other would, and him the wall he gaue.