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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 10. Bacchus and Apollo.

The thigh-borne bastard of the thundring Ioue,
(Whē mens inuentiōs are of wit most hollow)
He with his spitefull iuice their sprites doth mooue,
Vnto th' harmonious musicke of Apollo:
And in a word, I would haue all men know it,
He must drinke wine, that means to be a Poet.