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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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From the Creation to the generall Flood,
The name of Paper no man vnderstood:
But by tradition still from Sire to Son,
Men liuing knew the deeds by dead men done.
Yet many things were in the Deluge sau'd
In stony Pillars charactered and grau'd.

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For the most part antiquity agrees,
Long since the floud men writ in barkes of trees:
Which was obseru'd late in America,
When Spanish Cortois conquered Mexica.
Then after in Fig-leaues and Sicamour,
Men did in Characters their minds explore.
 

How when it is worne to Rags, it is made into Paper.