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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 VVorld runnes on vvheeles: OR, Oddes betwixt Carts and Coaches.
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The VVorld runnes on vvheeles: OR, Oddes betwixt Carts and Coaches.

The Diuell, the Flesh, the World doth Man oppose,
And are his mighty and his mortall foes:
The Diuell and the whorish Flesh drawes still,
The World on wheeles runnes after with good will.
For that which we the World may iustly call,
(I meane the lower Globe Terrestriall)
Is (as the Diuell, and a Whore doth please)
Drawne here and there, and euerie where, with ease.
Those that their Liues to vertue here doe frame,
Are in the World, but yet not of the same.

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Some such there are, whom neither Flesh or Diuell
Can wilfully drawe on to any euill:
But for the World, as 'tis the World, you see,
It Runnes on wheeles, and who the Palfreys be.
Which Embleme to the Reader doth display,
The Diuell and Flesh runne swift away.
The Chain'd ensnared World doth follow fast,
Till All into Perditions pit be cast.
The Picture topsie-turuie stands kewwaw:
The World turn'd vpside downe, as all men know

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