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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TO THE HONOVRABLE AND TRVLY Noble, Sir Robert Carr, Knight, one of the Gentlemen of his Maiesties Royall Bed-chamber, &c.
Tis not in expectation of reward,That I this booke vnto your hands doe tender;
But in my humble dutie, in regard
That I am bound my daily thanks to render.
And though my stile be harsh, my learning slender,
My Uerse defectiue, and my Accent rude;
Yet if your Patronage be my Defender,
J am defended 'gainst a multitude.
Thus (to auoyd Hell-hatch'd ingratitude,
My dutious Loue) my Lines, and Life shall be,
To you deuoted euer to conclude,
May you and your most vertuous Ladie see
Long happie dayes, in Honour still encreasing;
And after death, true Glorie neuer ceasing.
Your Honours in all seruice, Iohn Taylor.
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