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 5 lors, 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 God hath made.

Next' followed twenty-four Woollen-Drapers, two-by-two, bearing on their Breaſts this Motto :

We deal in Wool, but 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 ſoul !

The very Grave's a Button-bole.

After theſe, followed a vaſt Number of City ricketty hopper arſed Beaux, who had been padded up, and made into a compleat Gentleman, by the deceaſed Limb-trimmer, drying their watery Eyes, with Cambrick Handkerchiefs, and having this Motto en- graved on their Watch Caſes: