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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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PROLOGVE.

I now intend a Voyage here to Write,
From London vnto Yorke, helpe to Jndite,
Great Neptune lend thy Ayde to me, who past
Through thy tempestuous Waues with many a blast,
And then J'le true describe the Townes, and men,
And manners, as I went and came agen.