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 11 Q. What is the great cause of the bar- ber’s vanity ? A. His being admitted to trim noble- men’s chafts thyke their sculls, take kings 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 tai- lor’s pride ? A. His making of people’s new clothes, if of which every person, young and old, are proud of, then who can walk vainer than a tailor carrying home a gentleman’s clothes. Q. What is the cause of a young sol- dier’s pride ? A. When he lists, he is free from his mother’s correction, and the hard usage of a bad master, has liberty to curse, swear, whore, and every other thing, un- till convinced by four halberts and the drummer’s whip, that he has now got a military and civil law above his head, and perhaps worse master’s than ever. Q. What is the cause of the poor do- minie's pride ? A. As he is the teacher of the young and ignorant, he supposes no man knows what he knows, and the boys call him