Excerpt from The Pennyles Pilgrimage or the Money-Lesse Perambulation of John Taylor: Alias the Kings Majesties Water-Poet Ist Lordlings, list (if you have lust to list) I write not here a tale of had I wist But you shall hear of travels, and relations, Descriptions of strange (yet English) fashions. And he that not believes what here is writ, Let him (as I have done) make proof of it. The year of grace, accounted (as I ween) One thousand twice three hundred and eighteen, And to relate all things in order duly, 'twas Tuesday last, the fourteenth day of July, Saint Revels day, the almanack will tell ye The sign in Virgo was, or near the belly The moon full three days old, the wind full south At these times I began this trick of youth. I speak not of the tide, for understand.

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