Oh! that the tailor’s modish art
Could fashion trousers to our measure,
Secure and strong in every part,
A source of inexpensive pleasure!—
I little thought, mistrustless swell,
Whose garments Snip and Shears supply,
That trousers were but made—to sell—
The test of gullibility!
Yet, though these hands had scarce arrayed
In tourist suit my ugly body,