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 Spenser Society): a description in verse and prose of two outbreaks of the plague in London. 54. ‘A Funerall Elegie … in memory of Lancelot [Andrewes], Bishop of Winchester,’ 1626. 55. ‘A Funerall Elegy deploring the Death of John Ramsey, Earle of Holdernesse,’ 1626. 56. ‘A Warning for Swearers’ (in verse), 1626. A large broadside in two columns intended to be ‘hung up in every house.’ It is, however, frequently found appended to ‘The Fearefull Sommer,’ 1625; another edit. as ‘Christian Admonitions,’ 1629 (F). 57. ‘An Armado, or Nauye of 103 Ships,’ 8vo, 1627 (F); another edit. 1635. 58. ‘A Famous Fight at Sea, where foure English Ships … and Foure Dutch Ships fought … against 8 Portugall Gallions and 32 Friggots,’ 1627 (F). 59. ‘Wit and Mirth … fashioned into clinches, bulls, quirkes, yerkes, quips, and jerkes’ [numbered 1 to 138], black letter, 1629 (F); reprinted in vol. iii. of W. Carew Hazlitt's ‘Old English Jest-Books,’ 8vo, 1864; another edit. abridged from the above, ‘being 113 pleasant Tales and Witty Jests,’ 1635. 60. ‘The Great Eater of Kent … Nicholas Wood of Harrisom,’ 1630 (F); reprinted in C. Hindley's ‘Misc. Antiq. Angl.’ loc. cit. 61. ‘A Dogge of Warre, or, the Travels of Drunkard’ (chiefly in verse) [1630] (F). 62. ‘A Meditation on the Passion,’ 1630; a broadside in verse. *63. ‘A Bawd, a vertuous Bawd, a modest Bawd’ (in verse and prose), printed in the folio edition, 1630; another edit. 8vo, 1635, has been printed by the Spenser Society. 64. ‘Master Thomas Coriats Commendations to his Friends in England,’ 1630 (F). 65. ‘The Churches Deliverances, from … 1565 until the present’ 1630, in verse (F). 66. ‘Verbum Sempiternum (Salvator Mundi).’ Summaries in verse of the Old and New Testament, 2 pts. 64mo, 1616 (F 1630); also edits. in 1670 (Aberdeen); 1693; 3rd edit. (1700?); an edit. 1720, a reprint of 1693 and another 1818. Reprinted as the ‘Thumb Bible’ from 1720 edit. in 1849 and again in 1889. One of the smallest books, 2 in. long by 15/8 in. wide. *67. ‘The Suddaine Turne of ffortunes wheele’ (in verse), 1631; reprinted by the Spenser Society from the ‘original manuscript’ then (1871) in the possession of the Rev. Thomas Corser [q. v.]; also by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps in ‘Contributions to Early English Literature,’ 4to, 1849. Another manuscript is in the library of the University of Cambridge (Cat. ii. 487), and a modern transcript is Egerton MS. 2398 in the British Museum. 68. ‘Taylor on Thame Isis’ (in verse), 8vo, 1632. 69. ‘The Triumphs of Fame and Honour: at the Inauguration of Robert Parkhurst, clothworker,’ 1634. 70. ‘The Coaches overthrow,’ a black-letter ballad attributed to Taylor, 2 pts. s. sh. fol. 1635? 70a. ‘A most Horrible, Terrible, Tollerable, Termagant Satyre’ [1635], 8vo. *71. ‘The Old, Old, Very Old Man: or The Age and long Life of Thomas Par’ (in verse), 4to, 1635; another edit. same year; ‘third’ edit. 4to [1700?]; reprinted in vol. vii. of ‘Harleian Miscellany,’ 4to, 1774, &c.; in James Caulfield's ‘Edition of Curious Tracts,’ 8vo, 1794; and in C. Hindley's ‘Misc. Antiq. Angl.’ loc. cit; a Dutch translation by ‘H. H.,’ 4to, Delft, 1636 [see ]. *72. ‘John Taylor the Water-Poet's Travels through London to Visit all the Taverns,’ 1636; another edit., as ‘Taylor's Travels and Circvlar Perambulation through … London and Westminster,’ 8vo, 1636, has been reprinted by the Spenser Society from the unique copy in the Huth Library. *73. ‘The Honorable and Memorable Foundations … and Ruines of divers Cities, Townes, Castles … within ten Shires … of this Kingdome,’ 12mo, 1636; reprinted by the Spenser Society from the copy in the Huth Library (there is another copy of this rare book in the British Museum); another edit., as ‘A Catalogue of the Honorable and Memorable Foundations,’ &c., 1636. 74. ‘The Brave and Memorable Sea-Fight neere the Road of Tittawan in Barbary,’ 1636. *75. ‘The Carriers Cosmographia, or a briefe relation of the Innes … in and neere London,’ 4to, 1637; reprinted as No. 11 of Edmund William Ashbee's ‘Occasional Fac-simile Reprints,’ 4to, 1869; also in vol. i. of Professor Edward Arber's ‘An English Garner,’ 8vo, 1877. *76. ‘Drinke and welcome: or, the Famovs Historie of … Drinks’ (in prose and verse), 4to, 1637: reprinted as No. 17 of Ashbee's ‘Occasional Fac-simile Reprints,’ 4to, 1871. *77. ‘Bull, Beare, and Horse, Cut, Curtaile, and Longtaile’ (in verse and prose), 12mo, 1638. The only perfect copy known appears to be in the Bodleian Library among Malone's books. 78. ‘A Iuniper Lecture … the second Impression,’ 12mo, 1639; 3rd edit. 1652. 79. ‘Divers Crabtree Lectures,’ 12mo, 1639; a copy is in the Bodleian Library. A reply to this and the ‘Juniper Lecture’ appeared in 1640 with the title ‘The Womens sharpe Revenge.’ *80. ‘Taylors Feast: contayning Twenty-seaven Dishes of meate,’ 12mo, 1638; a most curious little book in prose, the only known copy being in the Huth Library. *81. ‘A sad … Elegy consecrated to the living memory of … M.