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but virtual taylors ; fueh, by virtue of a figure. 

 Far be it from me, to fpeak with th<* lead difre- 

 fpeft of a profeflion, which has produced fo 

 many heroes, in the ninth degree fuperior to 

 ordinary men. To go no farther, witnefs that 

 noble Engliflr tayior to whofe memory one of 

 the chief cities of Italy erefted a ftatue, on ac- 

 count of his military virtues — thofe gallant 

 taylors, who, in the war before the laft, plunged 

 with their horfes into the Thames, and fwim- 

 ming acrofs, haftened to gather laurels in the 

 bloody fields of Germany — and that Hercules 

 in fields of more pleafant defcription, the cele- 

 brated tayior of Brighton. Let it be remem- 

 bered alio, that every profeflion which con- 

 duces to public and private benefit, is honour- 

 able — and, moreover, that it would ill become 

 a poor author to write contumelioully of tay- 

 lors, who are, in general, fuch creditable men. 



Some you will fee, who, under the mijlaken 

 notion, that it is the go, to lean forward, be- 

 caufe they have feen fomethmg like it, at a 

 race ; hang quite over their horfes necks : thefe 

 equeftrians make a fmall miftake, by bending 

 at the hip-joint inftead of the middle of the 

 fpine, which, by protruding their poftic parts, 

 gives them the femblance of being juft in the 

 aft of offering an oblation to the neceffary 

 goddefs. Others thru ft their legs out from the 

 horfes fides, in defiance of all ordinary gate- 

 ways, 



