Page:Leper the tailor.pdf/24

 ( 24 ) to the houſe of one Ned Kemp, an hond Piece-broker, where there was a 'ſpaciou - grave dug, between a large cabbage and cucumber plant. The FUNERAL SERMON wat preached by Obadiah Backſtitch, and th words of the text were theſe :. New Cloth is preferable to old. After which, the journeymen taylors werd admitted into the houſe, and each of them ferved with a halfpenny roll, and a pint on -ale, and ſo went weeping home, for the lors of ſo good a mafter. THE TAYLOR'S LAST WILL. I Willund Bequeath unto. Simon Whip. flitch, my needle and thimble; unto Peter Niggle, my fheers and bodkin; and unto Mrs. Mary Clip, my pin-cuſhior, ſtuck full of needles and pins, to which I ſewed a watch-chain, key, and ſeal, with which I uf- ed to itrut about like a crow in a gutter. FINI S. Gae, canty Book, and win a name ; Nae lyrics e'er fall ding thee : Hipe large eſteem, and larring fame, For LEPER's name will raiſe thee. J. Neilſon, printer