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Wanderings to See the Wonders of the West, 1649; reported in Esther Moir, The Discovery of Britain: The English Tourists 1540-1840, page 26.

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John Taylor, self-styled as "The Water Poet", was an English poet.

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Pen Names: Water Poet • Swan of the Thames

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* The syntax of "a mad world (my masters)" may indicate allusion to and/or acknowledgement of Nicholas Breton's 1603 tract "A Mad World, my Masters".

Works, vol. ii, p. 85 (1630). Compare the 1735 Poor Richard's Almanack.

* The veteran BBC journalist John Simpson used "A Mad World, My Masters" as the title for memoirs published in 1999/2000.

Wanderings to See the Wonders of the West, 1649; reported in Esther Moir, The Discovery of Britain: The English Tourists 1540-1840, page 26. - John Taylor

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