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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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[Lo thus the burden of Adultrous guilt]

Lo thus the burden of Adultrous guilt,
I showring vengeance, Troy and Troianes saw:
No age, no sexe, no beauty, Gold or guilt,
Withstood foretold Cassandraes sacred saw.
She often said false Hellens beautious blast
Should be the cause the mighty Grecian pow'r,
Their names, and fames, with infamy should blast,
And how the gods on thē would vengeance powre.
But poore Cassandra prophesied in vaine,
She clam'rous cries (as 'twere) to sencelesse Rocks.
The youths of Troy, in merry scornefull veine,
Securelesse slept, whil'st lust the cradle rocks:
Till bloudy burning Indignation came,
And all their mirth with mourning ouercame.