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Iohn Taylor Water-Poet Anagramme: Loapety-Troianroweth.

Strange Newes! There is arrived at our Key;
A wandring Poet alwaies in his way;
Whose wilfull Errors makes him thus to vaunt,
Æneas-like, I came from Troyonvant.
I rowed in Rivers sometimes checkt by Milles,
Steer'd under Bridges, and came over Hilles.
The Oares of pleasure and of profit brought
This Water-Poet hither in his boat;
And hence he must, but yet he will I trow
To the Brittaines rather then the Latines row:
English will serve him rightly to rehearse
His crooked travells in good prose or verse.
When as the winds of fancy cease to blow him,
If he have watermen to row or tow him;
Expect Relations, I beleeve in fyne
The Poets waterworkes will goe in wine,
And all his dry-land passages appeare
With casuall events both here and there.
Now I doe wish he may accomplsh it
Without expence of any thing but wit.