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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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Mempricius raigned 20. yeeres, 991.

Mempricius base, his brother Manlius slew,
And got thē Crowne, by murder, not as due:
Maids, wiues, and widdowes, he by force deflowr'd:
He liu'd a Beast, and dy'd, by a Beast, deuour'd.