Nature

The 12. of Iune the Sunne enters into Cancer or the Crabbe. Cancer. Iune

by John Taylor 1580–1653

From The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses (1614)

Nature

Of Fall the Innes where Sol doth vse to lie,
With crabbed Cancer none may make compare:
It is the highest in the lofty skie,
All other signes to it Inferiour are.
When Sol is once ascended and come there,
He scaldes and scorches with his heau'nly heate:
Makes fields of grasse, and flowry medowes bare,
And though the Idleworke not yet they sweate.
Thus like an all-commanding Lord he swaies,
High mounted in his chiefe solstician pride:
For when in Cancer he immures his raies,
Vnto the height his glories amplifide.
And when he goes from thence, he doth beginne
By shorter Iournies to attaine his Inne.

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Taylor, John. “The 12. of Iune the Sunne enters into Cancer or the Crabbe. Cancer. Iune.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/116/.

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Taylor, John. “The 12. of Iune the Sunne enters into Cancer or the Crabbe. Cancer. Iune.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/116/.

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