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 ""There is no one so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts; How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As layers of sand, wear yet upon their chins The Beards of Hercules and frowning Mars. Who, inward searched, have livers white as milk: And these assume but valour's excrement To make themselves redoubted.""

The witty Robert Green, published in 1592, a curious dialogue, from which we get a glimpse into a Barber's shop of Queen Elizabeth's time. Cloth-breeches complains of the Barber's attention to Velvet-breeches in these terms. "His head being once dressed, which requires in combing and brushing some two hours; then being curiously washed with no worse than a camphor ball, you