CHAPTER XXII.
What happened to Julian in the person of a tailor.
"Fortune now stationed me in a character which the ingratitude of mankind hath put them on ridiculing, though they owe to it not only a relief from the inclemencies of cold, to which they would otherwise be exposed, but likewise a considerable satisfaction of their vanity.

The character I mean was that of a tailor; which, if we consider it with due attention, must be confessed to have in it great dignity and importance.
For, in reality, who constitutes the different degrees between men but the tailor?
the prince indeed gives the title, but it is the tailor who makes the man.

To his labors are owing the respect of crowds, and the awe which great men inspire into their beholders, though these are too often unjustly attributed to other motives.

Lastly, the admiration of the fair is most commonly to be placed to his account.
"I was just set up in my trade when I made three suits of fine clothes for king Stephen's coronation.

I question whether the person who wears the rich coat hath so much pleasure and vanity in being admired in it, as we tailors have from that admiration; and perhaps a philosopher would say he is not so well entitled to it.