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to the houſe of one Ned Kemp, an honeſt Piece-broker, where there was a ſpacious grave dug, between a large cabbage and a cucumber plant.

The FUNERAL SERMON was preached by Obadiah Backſtitch, and the words of the text were theſe:

New Cloth is preferable to old.

After which, the journeymen taylors were admitted into the houſe, and each of them ſerved with a halfpenny roll, and a pint of ale, and ſo went weeping home, for the loſs of ſo good a maſter.

THE

TAYLOR'S LAST WILL.

I Will and Bequeath unto Simon Whip-ſtitch, my needle and thimble; unto Peter Niggle, my ſheers and bodkin; and unto Mrs. Mary. Clip, my pin-cuſhion, ſtuck full of needles and pins, to which I fewed a watch-chain, key, and ſeal, with which I uſed to ſtrut about like a crow in a gutter.

FINIS.

Gae canty Book, and win a name; Nae lyrics e'er shall ding thee: Hope large esteem, and lasting fame, For LEPER's name will raise thee.