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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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Bladud reign'd 20. 863.

Baathe was by Bladud to perfection brought,
By Necromanticke Arts, to flye hee sought:
As from a Towre he thought to scale the Sky,
He brake his necke, because he soar'd too high.