Excerpt from Thomas's Burlesque Drama: Embellished With Sixty Two Engravings, From Original Designs No eye-balls darting fire, Shall make you stare Each outside shall belie the stuff within, A Roman spirit in a Tailor's skin. A cross-legged Cassius, Pompey, shall you see, And the ninth part Of Brutus strut in me. What tho' no swords we draw, no daggers shake, Yet can our warriors a quietus make, With'a bare bodkin. - Then be dumb, ye railers, And never, but in honour, call out Tailors But are these heroes tragic, you will cry P Oh very tragic - and I'll tell you why Should female artists with the male combine, And Mantua-makers to the Tailors join. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.