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 | Works of John Taylor the Water Poet not included in the folio volume of 1630 |  |
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Verses presented to the Kings own Hand by Iohn Taylor.
In Ovids Metamorphosis I findeTransformed Formes, and strange mishapen Shapes;
Of humane transmutations from their Kind
To Wolves, to Beares, to Doggs, to Pyes, to Apes;
Yet these were but Poeticall escapes,
(Or Moralizing of unnat'rall deeds)
To shew that Treasons, Murders, Incests, Rapes,
From Beastiall minds, (in humane formes) proceeds
But through thy power (which my poore Muse inflames)
A greater Wonder is perform'd by me:
I have transform'd a Boat from off the Thames,
Vnto a Horse, to come to welcome thee.
And now thy Gracious sight I doe attaine,
Ile turne that Horse into a Boat againe:
And all whom thy returne doth not delight,
Let them be hang'd, and then they have their right.
FINIS.
| Works of John Taylor the Water Poet not included in the folio volume of 1630 | |