All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: vvith sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and newly imprinted, 1630.

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Title: All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: vvith sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and newly imprinted, 1630.
Author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
Publication: At London :: Printed by I[ohn] B[eale, Elizabeth Allde, Bernard Alsop, and Thomas Fawcet] for Iames Boler; at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls Churchyard,; 1630.
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Gemini, May.
NOw bright fac'd Sminthus, with faire Flora meet
Adorning her with Natures best attire:
Trees, plants, hearbs, flowres, & odoriferous sweet
With Birds all chaunting in their feathered quire.
Now countrie Tom and Tyb haue their desire,
And rowle and tumble freely on the grasse,
The Milke-maide gets a greene gowne for her hir
And all in sport the time away doe passe,
The bird, the beast, the lusty lad, the lafle:
Doe sing, doe friske, doe clip, doe coll, doe kisse,
Not thinking how the time must be, or was,
But making pleasant vso of time as tis,
Till Sminthus leaues his lodging at the twinnes.
And to a hotter race his course beginnes.