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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
Taylor, John (1580-1653)

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To the Right Honourable THE LORD Marqvesse Hamilton, Master of the Horse to his Maiestie,
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, THE Lord Steward of his Maiesties Honourable Hovsehold
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, THE LORD Chamberlaine of his Maiesties most Honourable Hovsehold, PHILIP HERBERT EARLE OFF MONTGOMERY
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[THE SEIGE AND SACKING OF Iervsalem.]
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[The Life and Death of the Virgin Mary.]
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[SVPERBIÆ FLAGELLVM, OR THE WHIP OF PRIDE.]
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[Against Cursing and Swearing.]
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[THE FEAREFVLL SVMMER: OR LONDONS CALAMITIE.]
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[THE TRAVELS OF TWELVE-PENCE.]
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[AN ARMADO, OR NAVY OF SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS, WHO HAVE THE ART TO SAYLE BY LAND, AS WELL AS BY SEA.]
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[THE BEGGER.]
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[TAYLORS Goose.]
  
[dedication]
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TAYLORS GOOSE: By Iohn Taylor.
  
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The Winchester Goose.
  
The Taylers Goose.
  
The prayse of the Gray Goose wing.
  
The praise of the Gooses Quill.
  
The memorable honour of the Goose sauing the Capitoll at Rome.
  
Goostoft in Lincolnshire.
  
Goose Faire at Stratford Bow, the Thursday after Whitsontide.
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IACKE A LENT HIS BEGINNING AND ENTERTAINMENT: with the mad prankes of his Gentleman-Vsher Shroue-Tuesday that goes before him, and his Footman Hunger attending.
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THE PENNYLES PILGRIMAGE, OR THE MONEY-LESSE PERAMBVLATION, OF JOHN TAYLOR, ALIAS, THE KINGS MAIESTIES WATER-POET.
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THE GREAT EATER, OR PART OF THE ADMIRABLE TEETH AND STOMACKS EXPLOITS OF NICHOLAS WOOD, OF HARRISOM IN THE COVNTY OF KENT.
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[SIR Gregory Nonsence HIS NEVVES FROM NO PLACE.]
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[A very Merrie VVherrie-Ferry-VOYAGE.]
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[THE GREAT O TOOLE.]
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A DISCOVERY BY SEA, FROM London TO Salisbvry.
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The Scourge of Basenesse: OR, The old Lerry, with a new Kicksey, and a new-cum twang, with the old Winsey
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Taylors Motto.
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ODCOMBS COMPLAINT:
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CERTAINE SONNETS, IN PRAISE OF Mr Thomas THE DECEASED; FASHIONED OF diuers stufts, as mockado, sustian, stand-further off, and Motly, all which the Author dedicates to the immortall memory of the famous Odcombian traueller.
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THE EIGHTH VVONDER OF THE VVORLD:
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Laugh, and be Fat:
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MASTER THOMAS CORIAT TO HIS FRIENDS IN ENGLAND SENDS GREETING,
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[A BAWD.]
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[A WHORE.]
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[A THIEFE.]
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THE PRAISE AND VERTVE OF a JAYLE and JAYLERS:
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The Vnnaturall Father:
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[TAYLORS REVENGE.]
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FENNORS DEFENCE: OR, I AM YOVR FIRST MAN.
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A CAST OVER THE VVATER, BY JOHN TAYLOR.
  
The praise of cleane Linnen. VVITH THE COMMENDABLE VSE OF THE LAVNDRES.
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VVit and Mirth: CHARGEABLY COLLECTED OVT OF TAVERNS, ORDINARIES, Innes, Bowling-Greenes and Allyes, Alehouses, Tobacco-shops, Highwayes, and Water-passages.
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A DOGGE OF VVARRE, OR, The Trauels of Drunkard, the famous Curre of the Round Woollstaple in Westminster.
  
The VVorld runnes on vvheeles: OR, Oddes betwixt Carts and Coaches.
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The Nipping or Snipping of ABVSES: OR, The Wooll-gathering of Wit.
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A MEMORIALL OF ALL THE ENGLISH MONARCHS, being in number 151. from Brute to King Charles.
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A BRIEFE REMEMBRANCE OF ALL THE ENGLISH MONARCHS, from the Normans Conquest, vntill this present.
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A LIVING SADNES IN DVTY CONSECRATED TO THE IMMORTALL memory of our late Deceased all-beloued Soueraigne Lord, the Peerelesse Paragon of Princes, Iames, King of great Britaine, France and Ireland; who departed this Life at his Manour of Theobalds, on Sunday the 27. of March 1625.
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FOR The sacred memoriall of the great, Noble, and ancient Example of Vertue and Honor, the Illustrious and welbeloued Lord, Charles Howard, Earle of Nottingham, Iustice in Eyre of all his Maiesties Forrests, Parks, and Chases on this side Trent; Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter, and one of the Lords of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell;
  
A FVNERALL ELEGIE, IN THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE Right Reuerend, Right Honourable and Learned Father in GOD, Lancelot, Lord Bishop of VVinchester, Deane of his Maiesties Chappell, Prelate of the Right Honourable Order of the Garter, and one of the Lords of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Covncell:
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[A Funerall Elegie vpon the death of the Duke of Richmond and Linox.]
  
GREAT BRITAINE ALL IN BLACKE.
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THE MVSES MOVRNING:
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A FVNERALL ELEGY: DEPLORING THE DEATH OF THE TRVE Patterne, Patrone, and mirrour of Honour, the Right Honorable Lord, Iohn Ramsey, Lord Viscount Hadington, Earle of Holdernesse,
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THE VVATER-CORMORANT.
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TAYLORS WATER-WORKE:

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Goostoft in Lincolnshire.

In Lincolnshire an ancient Towne doth stand,
Call'd Goostoft, that hath neither fallow'd Land,
Or Woods, or any fertile pasture ground,
But is with watry Fens incompast round.
The people there haue neither Horse or Cowe,
Nor Sheepe, nor Oxe, or Asse, nor Pig, or Sowe:
Nor Creame, Curds, Whig, Whay, Buttermilke or Cheese,
Nor any other liuing thing but Geese.
The Parson of the Parish takes great paines,
And tyth Geese onely, are his labours gaines:
If any charges there must be defray'd,
Or Impositions on the Towne is layd,
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As Subsidies, or fifteenes for the King,
Or to mend Bridges, Churches, any thing.
Then those that haue of Geese the greatest store,
Must to these Taxes pay so much the more.
Nor can a man be raisde to Dignity,
But as his Geese encrease and multiply.
And as mens Geese doe multiply and breed,
From Office vnto office they proceed.
A man that hath but with twelue Geese began,
In time hath come to be a Tythingman:
And with great credit past that Office thorough
(His Geese increasing) he hath bin Headborough.
Then (as his Flocke in number are accounted)
Vnto a Constable, he hath bin mounted.
And so from place to place he doth aspire,
And as his Geese grow more hee's raised higher.
Tis onely Geese there that doe men prefer,
And 'tis a rule, no Goose, no Officer.
At Hunnibourne, a Towne in Warwickeshire,
What Gogmagog Gargantua Geese are there,
For take a Goose that from that place hath bin,
That's leane, and nought but feathers, bones & skin,
And bring her thither, and with little cost
Shee'l be as fat as any Bawde, almost.
For take foure Geese, and with a like expence,
Feed one there, and the others two miles thence,
And she that feedes at Hunnibourne shall bee
More worth in weight & price, then th'other three.
She shall with flesh vnable be to goe,
I cannot yeeld the Reason, but 'tis so .
 

A Womans Reason.

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