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 end this point of Hempseed, thus in briefe
It helps a trueman, and it hangs a Theefe.
Rates, Imposts, Customes of the Custome-house
Would at the best rate scarce be worth a Louse:
Goods in and out, which dayly ships doe fraight,
By guesse, by tale, by measure and by weight.
Which yearely to such mighty summes amount,
In number numberlesse: or past account:
Were't not for Hempseed, it doth plaine appeare
These profits would not be a groat a yeare.
It helps a trueman, and it hangs a Theefe.
Rates, Imposts, Customes of the Custome-house
Would at the best rate scarce be worth a Louse:
Goods in and out, which dayly ships doe fraight,
By guesse, by tale, by measure and by weight.
Which yearely to such mighty summes amount,
In number numberlesse: or past account:
Were't not for Hempseed, it doth plaine appeare
These profits would not be a groat a yeare.
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