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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 17. Euery thing is prettie when it is little.

There is a saying old, (but not so wittie)
That when a thing is little, it is prettie:
This doating age of ours it finely fits;
Where many men thought wise, haue pretty wits.