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drying their watery eyes with fine cambrick handkerchiefs, having the following motto engraved on their watch-caſes:

He's gone who made us human ſhapes, And now we must again turn apes.

But to conclude the proceſſion: Laſt of all followed a numerous crowd of journeymen taylors, who were all ſlip-ſhoed, their ſtockings about their heels, their hats off, a ſkein of thread hung careleſly about their necks; and their ſhirt-collars were open, that they might have liberty to diſturb their boſom-friends.-On their left ſleeve was a cuſhion, whereon ſtuck abundance of Spaniſh and Whitechapel needles. The tails of their wigs were natted like horſes' manes, juſt as if they had come off the ſhop board from work. On their left ſhoulders each had a long ſtrip of parchment, whereon was this motto written:

The lice bite us, 'tis not deny'd,

We bite our masters eben employd;

And they bite all the world beside.

At the bottom of Cloth-Fair, the Corpſe was arreſted at the ſuit of an old herb-woman, for elevenpence-halfpenny, which had been due a long time to the hag, for cabbages and cucumbers, which the deceaſed had in his life-time: However, the journeymen-taylors manfully releaſed the Corpſe, and afterwards marched on in ample proceſſion