Elizabeth Taylor (died 5 February 1708) was a British poet of the Restoration period.

[1][2][3][4] Her ode, "Ah poor Olinda never boast", told from the point of view of a young woman, appeared in two songbooks: A Collection of Twenty Four Songs (1684) and The Theater of Music (1685).

[1][2][3][4] In May 1685 Taylor married Sir Francis Wythens, a fifty year old judge and politician.

She had an affair with Sir Thomas Culpeper, 3rd Baronet, and began spending extravagantly, apparently in order to bankrupt Wythens.

Wythens unsuccessfully sued Culpeper for assault as a result of a beating from Taylor's brother, Sir Thomas Taylor, 2nd Baronet, alleging Culpeper had prevented a servant from coming to Wythens' aid.