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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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In Laudem Authoris.
  
  
  
  
  
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In Laudem Authoris.

Most commonly one Taylor will dispraise
Anothers workmanship, enuying alwaies
At him thats better then himselfe reputed,
Though he himselfe be but a botcher bruted:
So might it well be said of me (my friend)
Should I not to thy worke some few lines lend,
Which to make probable, this sentence tendeth,
Who not commends, he surely discommendeth:
In my illiterate censure, these thy rimes,
Deserue applause, euen in these worst of times:
VVhen wit is onely worthy held in those,
On whom smooth flattery vaine praise bestowes;
But I not minding with thy worth to flatter,
Do know thy wit too good to toyle by water.
Rob. Taylor.