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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 be lifts, 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.

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