%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The TAYLOR'S Vindication University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/02/2021 36849

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THere was a simple Adamite, That wrote a senseless Sonet Between a Taylor and his Love, (and now I think upon it) With many Scoffs Scorns and Jeers, Did give him in a Song, Sir, He said, that That Taylors were not Men; In which he did them wrong Sir. To Vindicat the Taylors Cause, Mantain it well I can Sir; For still where e're he comes and goes, He'll prove himself a Man Sir: And this I say, as well I may, And prove it well I can, Sir, The Taylors are our constant Friends, And very pretty Men, Sir. Adam and Eve in Paradice, Altho they wanted nothing; Yet they were Naked at the first, And had no kind of Cloathing, They sew'd Fig-leaves and Aprons made, To hide their shame of Sinning: And thus began the Taylors Trade At the Worlds first beginning. When that King Solomon did live, (So says that Royal Story) Most Gorgeous Rayment he did wear, in all his Pomp and Glory, Brave Garments gay, as Rich as may, Let there be no Mistaking, He went, as no Man can deny, Even of the Taylors making: Which does unto this very Day Deserve our Commendation, In making of our Garments fine, Of divers sort and fashion: The best of us would hardly speed, If Taylors did not make it, And help us when we stand in need, Or else like Beasts go Naked: The chiefest Gentry of the Town, (The Truth I may be bold in) The Gallant and the Country Clown To Taylors are beholden The Strong, the Weak, the Rich, the Poor The Free-man and the Jaylor, The honest Woman and the Whore, Must speak Good of the Taylor: Your dainty Dam'sels deck'd with Pea[rl] Becomes their Cloaths compleatly. Yea, and the honest Country Girles, Becomes their Habites neatly: The honest Sea-men and their Wives, The Ship wright and the Sailor, And every one both John and Jean, May speak Good of the Taylor. Yet one Thing more I must you tell, The which concerns their Dealing, A Taylor loves his Work so well, He hates the Trade of Stealing, Base Thiefry he cannot abide; When Cloath is brought unto him If any Thing be cast aside, I pray much Good may't do him.
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