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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. 8. Another in prayse of musicke.
  
  
  
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Sonnet. 8. Another in prayse of musicke.

No Poet crownd with euerliuing bayes
(Tho art like floods should frō his knowledge flow)
He could not write enough in Musicks praise:
To which, both man and Angels loue doe owe,
If my bare knowledge ten times more did know,
And had ingrost all arte from Pernas hill:
If all the Muses should their skils bestow
On me, to amplifie my barren skill:
I might attempt in shew of my good will,
In Musicks praise, some idle lines to write:
But wanting iudgement, and my accent ill,
I still should be vnworthy to indite,
And run my wit on ground like ship on shelfe:
For musicks praise consisteth in it selfe.