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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

Taylor, John (1580-1653)

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To the Right Honourable THE LORD Marqvesse Hamilton, Master of the Horse to his Maiestie,

TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, THE Lord Steward of his Maiesties Honourable Hovsehold

TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, THE LORD Chamberlaine of his Maiesties most Honourable Hovsehold, PHILIP HERBERT EARLE OFF MONTGOMERY

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[THE SEIGE AND SACKING OF Iervsalem.]

[The Life and Death of the Virgin Mary.]

[SVPERBIÆ FLAGELLVM, OR THE WHIP OF PRIDE.]

[Against Cursing and Swearing.]

[THE FEAREFVLL SVMMER: OR LONDONS CALAMITIE.]

[THE TRAVELS OF TWELVE-PENCE.]

[AN ARMADO, OR NAVY OF SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS, WHO HAVE THE ART TO SAYLE BY LAND, AS WELL AS BY SEA.]

[THE BEGGER.]

[TAYLORS Goose.]

IACKE A LENT HIS BEGINNING AND ENTERTAINMENT: with the mad prankes of his Gentleman-Vsher Shroue-Tuesday that goes before him, and his Footman Hunger attending.

THE PENNYLES PILGRIMAGE, OR THE MONEY-LESSE PERAMBVLATION, OF JOHN TAYLOR, ALIAS, THE KINGS MAIESTIES WATER-POET.

THE GREAT EATER, OR PART OF THE ADMIRABLE TEETH AND STOMACKS EXPLOITS OF NICHOLAS WOOD, OF HARRISOM IN THE COVNTY OF KENT.

[SIR Gregory Nonsence HIS NEVVES FROM NO PLACE.]

[A very Merrie VVherrie-Ferry-VOYAGE.]

[THE GREAT O TOOLE.]

A DISCOVERY BY SEA, FROM London TO Salisbvry.

The Scourge of Basenesse: OR, The old Lerry, with a new Kicksey, and a new-cum twang, with the old Winsey

Taylors Motto.

ODCOMBS COMPLAINT:

CERTAINE SONNETS, IN PRAISE OF Mr Thomas THE DECEASED; FASHIONED OF diuers stufts, as mockado, sustian, stand-further off, and Motly, all which the Author dedicates to the immortall memory of the famous Odcombian traueller.

THE EIGHTH VVONDER OF THE VVORLD:

Laugh, and be Fat:

MASTER THOMAS CORIAT TO HIS FRIENDS IN ENGLAND SENDS GREETING,

[A BAWD.]

[A WHORE.]

[A THIEFE.]

THE PRAISE AND VERTVE OF a JAYLE and JAYLERS:

The Vnnaturall Father:

[TAYLORS REVENGE.]

FENNORS DEFENCE: OR, I AM YOVR FIRST MAN.

A CAST OVER THE VVATER, BY JOHN TAYLOR.

The praise of cleane Linnen. VVITH THE COMMENDABLE VSE OF THE LAVNDRES.

VVit and Mirth: CHARGEABLY COLLECTED OVT OF TAVERNS, ORDINARIES, Innes, Bowling-Greenes and Allyes, Alehouses, Tobacco-shops, Highwayes, and Water-passages.

A DOGGE OF VVARRE, OR, The Trauels of Drunkard, the famous Curre of the Round Woollstaple in Westminster.

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

The Nipping or Snipping of ABVSES: OR, The Wooll-gathering of Wit.

To the Castalian Water-writer, Splende & dignoscar.

To my friend by land and by water, Iohn Taylor.

To his deare friend Master Iohn Taylor.

To the Water-Poet, Iohn Taylor.

To my friend Iohn Taylor.

To my honest friend Iohn Taylor.

In Laudem Authoris.

To my friend Iohn Taylor.

The Authours description of a Poet and Poesie, with an Apology in defence of Naturall English Poetry.

To the Kings most excellent Maiesty.

To the high and mighty Prince, Charles Stvart.

To Anna Queene of Great Brittaine.

Loues labyrinth, with the description of the seuen Planets.

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Sonnet.

Plutoes Proclamation concerning his Infernall pleasure for the Propagation of Tobacco.

Giuen at our Palace at Gehenna, &c.

To the Right Honourable, Lord, William Earle of Pembroke, William Herbert.

To the Right honourable John Lord Viscount Haddington, Earle of Holdernes, Iohn Ramsey.

To the Honourable Knight Sir Thomas Bludder.

Upon the Powder-Treason the fifth of Nouember 1605.

To the Right Honourable Iohn Moray, Lord Viscount Annan, Earle of Annandale, Gentleman of his Maiesties Honourable Bed-chamber.

Twelue Sonnets vpon the Sonnes entring into the twelue Cœlestiall Signes.

To the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Ridgewaye, Treasurer.

Certaine Sonnets made in the forme of Æquiuoques; on the destruction of Troy.

Certaine Sonnets: variously composed vpon diuers subiects.

A Cataplasmicall Satyre, composed and compacted of sundry simples, as salt, vineger, wormewood, and a little gall, very profitable to cure the impostumes of vice.

To Mistresse Rose.

To my approued good friend Mr. Robarte Cvddner.

A nest of Epigrams.

An Apologie for Water-men: Dedicated to Nowell, and Robert Clarke Esquires, Masters of his Maiesties Barges; and to the rest of the Masters, the Assistants of the Company of Watermen.

Epilogue to those that know what they haue read, and how to censure.

A MEMORIALL OF ALL THE ENGLISH MONARCHS, being in number 151. from Brute to King Charles.

A BRIEFE REMEMBRANCE OF ALL THE ENGLISH MONARCHS, from the Normans Conquest, vntill this present.

A LIVING SADNES IN DVTY CONSECRATED TO THE IMMORTALL memory of our late Deceased all-beloued Soueraigne Lord, the Peerelesse Paragon of Princes, Iames, King of great Britaine, France and Ireland; who departed this Life at his Manour of Theobalds, on Sunday the 27. of March 1625.

FOR The sacred memoriall of the great, Noble, and ancient Example of Vertue and Honor, the Illustrious and welbeloued Lord, Charles Howard, Earle of Nottingham, Iustice in Eyre of all his Maiesties Forrests, Parks, and Chases on this side Trent; Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter, and one of the Lords of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell;

A FVNERALL ELEGIE, IN THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE Right Reuerend, Right Honourable and Learned Father in GOD, Lancelot, Lord Bishop of VVinchester, Deane of his Maiesties Chappell, Prelate of the Right Honourable Order of the Garter, and one of the Lords of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Covncell:

[A Funerall Elegie vpon the death of the Duke of Richmond and Linox.]

GREAT BRITAINE ALL IN BLACKE.

THE MVSES MOVRNING:

A FVNERALL ELEGY: DEPLORING THE DEATH OF THE TRVE Patterne, Patrone, and mirrour of Honour, the Right Honorable Lord, Iohn Ramsey, Lord Viscount Hadington, Earle of Holdernesse,

THE VVATER-CORMORANT.

TAYLORS WATER-WORKE:

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Sonnet.

Like a decrepit wretch, deform'd and lame
My verse approaches to my dearest Dame
Whose dire disdaine, makes my laments her game
Whose scornfull eies adde fuell to my flame.
But whether shee, or I, are most too blame
I for attempting to exalt her fame
With fruitlesse Sonnets; which my wit did frame:
Or shee whose piercing lookes my heart o'r-came.
Her feature can both men and monsters tame
The gods, and fiends adore and dread her name
Whose matchlesse forme doth Citherea shame,
Whose cruell heart remaineth still the same
And in a word, I striue against the streame
My state's too low, and hers is too supreme.

Then since so scornefull is her high disdaine,
Since all my loue is but bestow'd in vaine
Curbe fancie then, with true discretions Reine,
Let reason cure my tor-tormenting paine,
Suppose I should at last, my suit attaine,
And then sit downe and count my losing gaine:
My haruest would be tares in stead of graine.
Then Ile no longer vexe my vexed braine
To seeke her loue, who ioyes when I complaine
No longer I, loues vassall will remaine,
I'l be no more of Cupids witlesse traine,
Whose partiall blindenesse hath so many slaine.
Proud Dame, whose brest my loue didst earst refrain
Despight loues lawes, I'le be no more thy swaine.

Thus like a man, whose wits were quite bereft him,
I found him mad with loue, and so I left him.