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 bands; the frogs resemble pipers and preachers, for the young ride the old to death.

Q. Who are the merriest and heartiest people in the world?

A. The sailors, for they'll be singing and cursing one another, when the waves, their graves, are going over their heads.

Q. Which are the disorderliest creatures in battle?

A. Cows and dogs, or they all fall upon them that are neathmost.

Q. Who are the vainest sort of people in the world?

A. A barber, a taylor, young soldier, and a poor dominie.

Q. What is the great cause of the barber's ?

A. His being admitted trim noblemen's chasts, thyke their sculls, tak  by the nose, and hold a razor to his very throat, which no subject else dare do.

Q. What is the great cause of the taylor's ?

A. His making of people's new, of which every person, young and old is of, then who can walk in a vainer shew than taylor carrying home a gentleman's cloths.

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

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

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

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