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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 36. A Wordmonger.

Mans vnderstanding's so obnubilate,
That when thereon I doe excogitate,
Intrinsicall and querimonious paines
Doe puluerise the concaue of my braines,
That I could wish man were vnfabricate,
His faults he doth so much exaggerate.