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 To want a beard makes man look young, Apollo’s praie has oft been ung, Who unhorn his hair upon his beard, He was as bluff as a Fife laird. A beard is but a hedge-hog’s kin, A haunt for vermin to lodge in; A ource of many woes and troubles, A hold for nuff; a haunt for bubbles, A meadow water’d by the noe, Where notters in meanders flows; A beard makes man look like a goat, If give him but a white kelt coat: So now a beard cots very dear, It cots two hundred pence a year; There’s no religion in a beard, More than is in a moulder’d t—rd; Three beards 'tis true will make a quorum, Of old they grac’d philosophorum. It ill becomes a modern beau, Thro’ muty heard his miles to hew, He who does praie a beard does coff, The barber's paid to cut it off; A beard no manly face adorns, Nor on of man a cuckold’s horns. A britley beard produceth horns, A lady hates a beard of thorns; A