Brewer's: Water-Poet

John Taylor, the Thames waterman. (1580-1654.)

I must confess I do want eloquence, And never scarce did learn my accidence, For having got from `possum' to `posset,' I there was grayelled, nor could farther get.

Taylor the Water-Poet.

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