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<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
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<HEAD>AN ENCOMIASTICK CHARACTER Of the mo&s;t Nece&s;&s;ary, mo&s;t Ingenious, and mo&s;t Plea&s;ant Art, OF TAYLORIE Dedicated to the Ma&s;ters of the much Honoured CORPORATION OF EDINBURGH.</HEAD>
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<L>_BLe&s;t are Our Dayes, and Hap|py are Our Starrs!</L>
<L>After Our Bruti&s;h, and Inte|&s;tine Warrs;</L>
<L>When harmele&s;s Peace claps her Triumphant Wings,</L>
<L>Betwixt the Subjects Intere&s;t, and the Kings:</L>
<L>Peace the &s;ole Nur&s;e of Plenty, and of Arts,</L>
<L>Hath with &s;uch Thrift and Vertue fill'd our Hearts</L>
<L>No more the Bloody, and Revengeful Blade</L>
<L>To To&s;s, but each to follow his Own Trade.</L>
<L>Among&s;t the which Your nece&s;&s;ary Art,</L>
<L>Hath both the Pompous, and the plea&s;ant Part;</L>
<L>An Art who&s;e Character, and true intent,</L>
<L>Both for di&s;tinction is, and ornament.</L>
<L>For con&s;tantly through all the World we find,</L>
<L>Mans habit differs from the Woman-kind.</L>
<L>If we affirm (who'l take it in ill part?)</L>
<L>That <HI>Kings</HI> and <HI>Patriarchs</HI> both practi&s;'d your Art.</L>
<L><HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> was <HI>Jacobs</HI> darling, And what not?</L>
<L>And it was <HI>Jacob</HI> that made <HI>Jo&s;ephs</HI> Coat.</L>
<L>Ladies made Cloaths, who had no Journey men,</L>
<L>A Madam <HI>Taylor</HI> was no wonder then.</L>
<L>Yea without <HI>Taylors,</HI> where's the difference,</L>
<L>Betwixt a Counte&s;&s;e and a Countrey Wench?</L>
<L>Let any &s;trangers eye (the mo&s;t ob&s;ervant)</L>
<L>Di&s;tinction make of Ma&s;ter from a Servant,</L>
<L>Without your Art? Nay it is only ye,</L>
<L>Can fa&s;hion each Man to his own degree.</L>
<L>Did not your Art adorn them year by year,</L>
<L>Lords would like Beggars, Beggars Lords appear.</L>
<L>View me your <HI>Parliaments,</HI> wherein its &s;aid</L>
<L>The Glory of a Nation is Di&s;plaid;</L>
<L>Did not your Pompous Art each Man adorn,</L>
<L>Their Glorious Grandour all would turn to &s;corn.</L>
<L><HI>Adam</HI> and <HI>Eve,</HI> he King, and &s;he a Queen,</L>
<L>The greate&s;t ever in this world were &s;een,</L>
<L>Were <HI>Taylors</HI> both: But this was the mi&s;chief.</L>
<L>They wanted Cloath, and &s;owed Leaf to Leaf.</L>
<L>Yet &s;ince no Art, nor In&s;trument was theirs,</L>
<L>They were but <HI>Embrio</HI>-Ma&s;ter fa&s;hioners.</L>
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<L>It's yours above all Arts, who&s;e indu&s;trie</L>
<L>Can add a Splendour to Nobilitie.</L>
<L>Yea, Ye have fill'd all Ages, and all States</L>
<L>With Worthie Patriots and Magi&s;trates;</L>
<L>Both Burge&s;&s;es, and Splendid Gentry too,</L>
<L>In Town and Country owe their Birth to you:</L>
<L>Councils, and Armies, ye have both &s;upplied</L>
<L>With Wit and Valour, more than any Trade.</L>
<L>Some Arts the Hands, and &s;ome the Feet do cover,</L>
<L>Only the <HI>Taylors</HI> Art, is &s;een all over.</L>
<L>Some are for Halcyon peace, &s;ome for &s;tern Warr,</L>
<L>But yours for both, <HI>So great's a Taylors Care!</HI></L>
<L>Some Arts we u&s;e at Land, and &s;ome at Sea.</L>
<L>The <HI>Taylors</HI> Art we need where ere we be.</L>
<L>Some Arts are only for &s;ome kind of Men,</L>
<L>But yours all &s;orts doth fully comprehend;</L>
<L>Without the which, Judges would &s;tand like Blocks,</L>
<L>And Kings them&s;elves wold prove but laughing &s;tocks</L>
<L>Some Arts are &s;o extinct, nought can per&s;wade,</L>
<L>But their &s;ad Relicts, they a Being had,</L>
<L>Yet it's acknowledged in every part,</L>
<L>The <HI>Taylors</HI> are the elde&s;t Sons of Art;</L>
<L>Who&s;e Art to the la&s;t Judgment &s;hall remain;</L>
<L>Or <HI>I&s;rael</HI> in de&s;ert be again.</L>
<L>Your Art was &s;urely precious to the Jews,</L>
<L>Who rent their cloaths on every di&s;mall newes.</L>
<L>Ye're Artificiall Powers, that can Create</L>
<L>The &s;everal &s;hapes, both in the Church and State.</L>
<L>And can them into &s;everal Cla&s;&s;es varie,</L>
<L>Politick, Sacred, or the Militarie.</L>
<L>It's you makes Cinnamon Trees, of &s;illy Noddies,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Bark is far more Worthy than their Bodies.</L>
<L>And tho their Head like emptie Bottles &s;howes,</L>
<L>Ye Rhetorick Infu&s;e into their Cloaths.</L>
<L>If palliative cures de&s;erve that name,</L>
<L>Ye are Phy&s;icians of Di&s;a&s;trous &s;hame.</L>
<L>And are prefer'd before them yet a &s;tepp, <NOTE PLACE="marg">This word Hepp is pure He|brew.</NOTE></L>
<L>Defects of nature ye both help and hepp.</L>
<L>What Lands, what Livings, and what goodly price,</L>
<L>Would <HI>Adam</HI> given for you in <HI>Paradice.</HI></L>
<L>It's true from <HI>Adam's</HI> fall our Cloaths we name,</L>
<L>The faire&s;t covers, of the Foule&s;t &s;hame:</L>
<L>Yet to exalt your Glory, not your Pride,</L>
<L>Ble&s;&s;ed are ye our nakedne&s;s can hide.</L>
<L>It's you can make the out&s;ide &s;atisfie</L>
<L>The expectation of the Curious Eye.</L>
<L>The Souls the Bodies Blade, but then we know</L>
<L>The Scabbard (next to GOD) to you we owe.</L>
<L>Nay to the Eternal Honour of your Trade,</L>
<L>Your Ma&s;ter fir&s;t was GOD Him&s;elf we Read <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Gene&s;is 3.17.</NOTE></L>
<L>Since Rea&s;on and the Scriptures both allow,</L>
<L>All other Trades mu&s;t needs give place to you.</L>
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<L><HI>A Ma&s;ter of his Trade none him aver,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In Hou&s;e or Shop who wants this Character.</HI></L>
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<Q><HI>Aetern<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">m Floreat</HI> ARS VESTIARIA.</Q>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Reid,</HI> Anno DOM. 1688.</P>
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