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When the Corpſe was conveyed down ſtairs, each perſon was ſerved decently round with a leaf of red cabbage, inſtead of a ſprig of roſemary. Then the Corpſe was hoiſted on the ſhoulders of fix Piece brokers, having each of them this motto:

The Taylor steals, we buy.

The Pall was ſupported by thoſe who ſold Stay-tape, Buckram, and Canvas.

The Corpſe was followed down Cloth-fair. by thirty-ſix Maſter Taylors, each having a yard in his right hand, with a parchment ſtreamer at the end of it, with this motto:

We Taylors, by our art and trade, Do often mend what wrong is made.

Next followed twenty-four woulen-drapers, two-by-two, and bearing on their breaſts this motto:

We deal in Wool, butt can't forbear To deal, alas! ſometimes in hair.

Then followed the like number of Button-makers, wringing their hands with this motto:

Man's but a Button, by my ſoulǃ The wery Grave's a Button-hole.

After theſe, followed a vaſt number of city ricketty hopper-arſed beaux, who had been padded up, and made into a conpleat gentleman, by the deceaſed limb-trimmer,