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 |  |
The image of Olimpique Jupiter,
Had from Achaya not beene fam'd so farre,
Nor Pharoes Watch towre wch the world renownes
Which cost 400.fourescore thousand crownes.
Thus without Hemp-seed we had neuer knowne
These things, nor could they to the world be shown.
O famous Coriat, hadst thou come againe
Thou wouldst haue told vs newes, direct and plaine,
Of Tygers, Elephants, and Antelops
And thousand other things as thicke as hops,
Of men with long tailes, faced like to hounds,
Of oysters, one whose fish weigh'd forty pounds,
Of spiders greater then a walnut shell
Of the Rhinoceros thou wouldst vs tell,
Of horses tane with hawkes, of beares of buls,
Of men with eares a span long, and of guls,
As great as Swans, and of a bird call'd Ziz
Whose egge will drown'd some threescore villages,
Of cranes, and pigmies, lizzards, buzzards, owles,
Of swine with hornes, of thousand beasts and foules.
All these and more then I to minde can call
Thou wouldst haue told vs, and much more then all,
But that our expectations were preuented,
By death, which makes thy friends much discontented.
But farewell Thomas, neuer to returne
Rest thou in peace within thy forraigne Vrne,
Hempseed did beare thee o're the raging some
And O I wish that it had brought thee home,
For if thou hadst come backe, as I did hope,
Thy fellow had not beene beneath the Cope.
But we must loose that which we cannot saue.
And freely leaue thee whom we cannot haue.
Had from Achaya not beene fam'd so farre,
Nor Pharoes Watch towre wch the world renownes
Which cost 400.fourescore thousand crownes.
Thus without Hemp-seed we had neuer knowne
These things, nor could they to the world be shown.
O famous Coriat, hadst thou come againe
Thou wouldst haue told vs newes, direct and plaine,
Of Tygers, Elephants, and Antelops
And thousand other things as thicke as hops,
Of men with long tailes, faced like to hounds,
Of oysters, one whose fish weigh'd forty pounds,
Of spiders greater then a walnut shell
Of the Rhinoceros thou wouldst vs tell,
Of horses tane with hawkes, of beares of buls,
Of men with eares a span long, and of guls,
As great as Swans, and of a bird call'd Ziz
Whose egge will drown'd some threescore villages,
Of cranes, and pigmies, lizzards, buzzards, owles,
Of swine with hornes, of thousand beasts and foules.
All these and more then I to minde can call
Thou wouldst haue told vs, and much more then all,
But that our expectations were preuented,
By death, which makes thy friends much discontented.
But farewell Thomas, neuer to returne
Rest thou in peace within thy forraigne Vrne,
Hempseed did beare thee o're the raging some
And O I wish that it had brought thee home,
For if thou hadst come backe, as I did hope,
Thy fellow had not beene beneath the Cope.
But we must loose that which we cannot saue.
And freely leaue thee whom we cannot haue.
I thinke it best to sow all our Land with itenery third yeare, for now our bread and drinke corne growing out of the excrements of beasts, makes vs to participate of their beastly natures, as when barly growes where swine haue dungd, those that drinke the ale or beere made of that malt, are many times as beastly as swine, and as drunke as hogs.
| All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet | |