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 ‘possumʹ to ‘posset,ʹ
I there was grayelled, nor could farther get.”
Taylor the Water-Poet.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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