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 Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't.
 O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?
  What's read more 
 Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't.
 O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?
  What's this, a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.
   What, up and down carved like an apple tart?
    Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,
     Like to a censer in a barber's shop.
      Why, what's a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this? 
 Sister, look ye,
 How, by a new creation of my tailor's
  I've shook off old mortality.  
 Sister, look ye,
 How, by a new creation of my tailor's
  I've shook off old mortality. 
Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
 What a fine man
 Hath your tailor made you!  
 What a fine man
 Hath your tailor made you! 
 Yes, if they would thank their maker,
 And seek no further, but they have new creators,
  God read more 
 Yes, if they would thank their maker,
 And seek no further, but they have new creators,
  God tailor and god mercer. 
 Get me some French tailor
 To new-create you.  
 Get me some French tailor
 To new-create you. 
 (Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man?
 (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a read more 
 (Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man?
 (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not 
have made him ill, though they had been but two years o' th' 
trade. 
 As if thou e'er wert angry
 But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred
  Can bring read more 
 As if thou e'er wert angry
 But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred
  Can bring more to the making up of a man,
   Than can be hoped from thee; thou art his creature;
    And did he not, each morning, new create thee,
     Thou'dst stink and be forgotten. 
 May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill,
 And tailors' lays be longer than their bill!
  While punctual beaux read more 
 May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill,
 And tailors' lays be longer than their bill!
  While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes,
   And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.