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Q. What is the great cauſe of the taylor'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 taylor, carrying home a gentleman's clothes.

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

A. When he lifts, he thinks he is free of his mother's correction, the hard uſage of a bad maſter; has liberty to curſe, ſwear, whore, and do every things 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 worſe maſters than ever.

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

A. As he is the teacher of the young and ignorant, be ſuppoſes no man knows what he knows; the boys call him maſter, therefore he thinks himſelf a great man.

Q. What ſort of a ſong is it, that is ſung without a tongue, and its notes are underſtood by people of all nations?