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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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Sonnet. 5. Three blinde Commanders.

Blinde fortune, sightlesse loue, and eyelesse death,
Like Great Triumue'rs swayes this earthly roome,
Mans actions, affections, and very breath:
Are in subiection to their fatall doome.
Ther's nothing past, or presen, or to come,
That in their purblinde power is not comprizde:
From Crowne, to cart, from cradle to the toome,
All are by them defamde, or eternizde:
Why should we then esteeme this doating life
(Thats in the guideance of such blind-fold rule)
Whose chiefest peace, is a continuall strife,
Whose gawdy pompes the pack, and man the Mule,
Which liues long day, he beares, as he is able,
Til deaths blacke night, doth make the graue his stable?