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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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To the Right Worshipfull and my euer respected Mr. Iohn Moray Esquire.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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To the Right Worshipfull and my euer respected Mr. Iohn Moray Esquire.

Of all the wonders this vile world includes,
I muse how flatterie such high fauours gaine.
How adulation cunningly deludes,
Both high and low from Scepter to the swaine;
But if thou by flatterie couldst obtaine
More then the most that is possest by men,
Thou canst not tune thy tongue to falshoods straine,
Yet with the best canst vse both tongue and pen.
Thy sacred learning can both scan and ken
The hidden things of Nature and of Art,
'Tis thou hast rais'd me from obliuions den,
And made my Muse from obscure sleepe to start.
Vnto thy wisdomes censure I commit,
This first borne issue of my worthlesse wit.
J. T.