TAILOR is partly an alchemist, for he extracteth his own apparel out of other men's clothes.
Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters.
AM quite ashamed to take people into my garden, and have them notice the absence of onions. In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour.
C. D. Warner, My Summer in a Garden.
ORBAY had incurred a good deal of expense
To make him a Scotchman in every sense
But this is a matter, you'll readily own,
That isn't a question of tailors alone.
A Sassenach chief may be bonily built,
He may purchase a sporran, a bonnet, and kilt,
Stick a skean in his hose—wear an acre of stripes—
But he cannot assume an affection for pipes.
W. S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads.
