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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 8. Selfe-conceit.

Some Poets are, whose high pitcht lofty straines
Are past the reach of euery vulgar wight:
To vnderstand which, twill amaze weake braines.
So mysticall, sophisticall they write:
No maruell others vnderstand them not,
For they scarce vnderstand themselues, I wot.