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Pierides

or The Muses Mount. By Hugh Crompton
Crompton, Hugh
  
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28. Taylors.

1

Taylors and Wood-cocks both agree,
(But not in point of skills)
For both of them (we plainly see)
Do live by their long bills.

2

The Taylors scrub, the Wood cocks fly;
So both be quick and nimble:
The Wood cock trusts unto his eye;
The Taylor to his thimble.
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