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 Q What is the great caufe of the taylor’s pride ? A His making of people's new clothes, of which every perfon young and old is proud;then who can walk in a fhew than a taylor,carrying home a genteleman's clothes. Q What is the caufe of a young fol- dler's price? A When he lifts,he thinks he is tree of his mother's correction,the hard ufage of a bad mafter; has liberty to curfe, fwear,whore and do everything; until he be convinced by four halbert and the crmme's ,thathe has now got both a military and civil law above his head and perhaps worfe mafters than ever. Q What is the caufe of the poor dominie's pride? A As he is a teacher of the young and ignorant, he fuppofes no man knows what he knows; the boys call him mafter, therefore he thinks himfelf a great man. Q What fort of a fong is it, that is fung without a tongue, and its notes are underftood by people of all nations?