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 to his very throat, which no subject else dare do.

Q. What is the great cause of the tailor's pride?

A. His making of peoples new clothes, 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 soldier'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, until convinc'd by four halberts and the drummer's whip, that he has now got 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, he supposes no man knows what he knows, and the boys call him master, therefore he thinks himself a great man.

Q. What sort of a song is it is that