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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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Epilogue to those that know what they haue read, and how to censure.
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Epilogue to those that know what they haue read, and how to censure.

To you whose eares and eyes haue heard & seene
This little pamphlet, and can iudge betweene
That which is good, or tol'rable, or ill,
If I with Artlesse Nature wanting skill,
Haue writ but ought, that may your thoughts content,
My Muse hath then accomplisht her intent.
Your fauors can preserue me, but your frownes
My poore inuentions in obliuion drownes.
With tolerable friendship let me craue
You will not seeke to spill, what you may saue.
But for the wrymouth'd Critick that hath read,
That mewes, & puh's, and shakes his brainlesse head,
And saies my education or my state;
Doth make my verse esteem'd at lower rate,
To such a one this answer I doe send,

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And bid him mend, before he discommend.
His Enuy vnto me, will fauours prooue,
The hatred of a foole breeds wise-mens loue.
My Muse is iocund that her labours merits
To be malign'd and scornd by Enuious spirits:
Thus humbly I craue pardon of the best,
Which being gaind, Sir reuerence for the rest.