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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A humorous letter to the printer recounts a satirical tale of Queen Elizabeth granting a petition from tailors to form a regiment for Flanders, their heroic but doomed battle, and her punning reaction upon their loss. It concludes with an epigram on tailors and Frenchmen.
Merged-components note: Merged the letter to the editor with the following epigram due to thematic continuity on the subject of tailors and sequential reading order on the same page; relabeled the epigram as part of the letter.
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The Affair at Erndorff is not the first Time in which our Profession have greatly signalized themselves abroad,
In the Reign of Q. Elizabeth (of ever glorious Memory) the Taylors petitioned her Majesty, that a Regiment might be raised, composed entirely of their Profession to go abroad into Flanders; which Petition her Majesty was graciously pleased to grant; and, on Account of their Readiness in supporting her Majesty against her Enemies, she ordered (that as there never was known to be a Regiment of Taylors before) that they should be mounted upon Mares. In a small Time the Regiment was completed, and they were surprisingly Expeditious in perfecting themselves in their Exercise; and were reviewed by her Majesty just before their Embarkation, who expressed great Satisfaction at the handsome Appearance they made, and how expert they were in the Performance of their Exercise. On their Arrival abroad, it was not long before they had an Opportunity of greatly distinguishing themselves. They rushed into the Front of the Battle, and every Man performed Wonders; but at last being overpowered by a prodigious Superiority of the Enemy, they to a Man were entirely cut off.
When the melancholy Account came to the Queen, of the entire Loss of the Regiment of Taylors, she seemed very much affected; but on a sudden recollecting herself, she broke out in the following Ejaculation: Thank God, says she, I have neither lost Man nor Horse; for they were all Tailors and Mares.
An EPIGRAM.
NINE Tailors make an Englishman;
So says a Sack or Naylor:
And now experience plainly shows,
Nine Frenchmen make a Taylor.
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To The Printer, &C.
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the letter shares a humorous anecdote about tailors distinguishing themselves in military service during queen elizabeth's reign, highlighting their profession's valor through satire and puns.
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