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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 | All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet |  |
Retiring neuer when they doe assaile,
But most aduenturously with tooth and nayle,
Raze, ruinate, demolish, and confound,
The sugred fabricke leuell with the ground.
And hauing layd the buildings thus along,
They swallow downe, and pocket vp the wrong.
That who so that way afterwards doe passe,
Can see no signe where such a Castle was:
For at these warres most commonly 'tis seene,
Away the victors carry all things cleane.
It fortunes in these battels now and then
Women are better Souldiers farre then men:
Such sweet mouth'd fights as these doe often fall
After a Christning, or a Funerall.
Thus Hempe the Comfit-makers doth supply,
From them that newly liue, and newly dye.
If the blacke Indians or Newcastle coales
Came not in Fleets, like fishes in the sholes.
The rich in gownes and rugs themselues might sold,
But thousands of the poore might statue with cold.
But most aduenturously with tooth and nayle,
Raze, ruinate, demolish, and confound,
The sugred fabricke leuell with the ground.
And hauing layd the buildings thus along,
They swallow downe, and pocket vp the wrong.
That who so that way afterwards doe passe,
Can see no signe where such a Castle was:
For at these warres most commonly 'tis seene,
Away the victors carry all things cleane.
It fortunes in these battels now and then
Women are better Souldiers farre then men:
Such sweet mouth'd fights as these doe often fall
After a Christning, or a Funerall.
Thus Hempe the Comfit-makers doth supply,
From them that newly liue, and newly dye.
If the blacke Indians or Newcastle coales
Came not in Fleets, like fishes in the sholes.
The rich in gownes and rugs themselues might sold,
But thousands of the poore might statue with cold.
| All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet | |