REFLEXION.

A Steady Mind will admit Steady Methods and Counsels; but there’s no

Measure to be taken of a Changeable Humour. Tell me where I may find ye,

and I shall know where to fit ye: But otherwise, ’tis with us in the

Levity of our Manners, and of our Humours, as it was with _Clark_, the

Famous Posture-Master, and his Taylor. When the Workman took Measure of

him, he was Crump-Shoulder’d, and the Right Side Higher then the Left;

when he brought home his Suit, the Left was Higher then the Right; The

Fellow was Mad at himself, and made him another Suit; and that would not

do neither, for his Body was then as Straight as an Arrow.

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