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Noblemen's chafts, thake their sculls; take Kings by the nose, and hold a ra- zor to their very throats, which no                      subject else dare presume to do.

Q. What is the great cause of the Tailor's pride?

A. His making of people's new clothes, of which every person, young and old, is proud. Then, who can walk in a vainer shew than a Tailor carrying home a gentleman's new clothes?

Q. What is the cause of a young Soldier's pride?

A. When he lists, he thinks he is                      free of his mother's correction, the hard usage of a bad master, his liberty to                      curse, swear, whore, and do everything, until he be convinced by four halberts and the drummer's whip that he has now got both a military and civil law above his head, and, perhaps, far worse masters then ever.

Q. What is the cause of the poor Dominie's pride?

A. As he is the teacher of the young