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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 27. Prudence.

Tis strange that Prudence should be wilde and rude,
Whose very name doth Modesty include:
The reason is, for ought that I can see,
Her name and nature doe not well agree.