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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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Epigram 2. Loue.

Loue is a dying life, a liuing death,
A vapor, shadow, bubble, and a breath:
An idle bable, and a paltry toy,
Whose greatest Patron is a blinded boy:
But pardon loue, my iudgement is vniust,
For what I spake of loue, I meant of lust.