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 it is in stead of a hat, and keepeth the head very warm, and also will bear off a great blow or stroke; and this head of hair they call a glib, and therein they have a great pleasure."

It must however be acknowledged, that to a people who were often in danger having their heads broke, the glib was certainly a convenient fashion, Bulwer was not aware of this when he included it in his invective against what he calls "superfluous crops of hair." "What emolument it can bring, (he says) none can see, unless it be to breed lice and dandro, after the manner of your Irish; who, as they are a nation estranged from any human excellency, scarce acknowledge any other use of their hair than to wipe their hands from the fat and dirt of their meals, and any other filth; for which cause they nourish long felt locks,