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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 28. Mercy.

My Mercy hates me, what's the cause I pray,
Tis'cause I haue no money, shee doth say.
O cruell Mercy, now I plainly see,
Without a fee no mercie comes from thee.
Yet in conclusion, euery idle gull
Perceiues thy Mercy is vnmercifull.