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4 CHAP. II.

Jack frights a Taylor for cabbaging

Cloath out of his Coat.

JACK being twenty years of age,

liv’d with a worthy knight.

In manner of a pretty page,

to yield him much delight:

The Knight right generous and free,

did for a taylor ſend,

For to make Jack a livery,

ſo much he was his friend,

Of half a yard of good broad cloth

the coat was to be made,

But yet the taylor he was loth

to quit his thieviſh trade.

The knaviſh taylor was to blame,

(a crafty cunning wag)