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 "Which holy vow he firmly kept, And most devoutly wore A grizzly meteor on his face, 'Till they were both no more.""

""Now a few lines to paper I will put,

Of men's Beards strange and variable cut,

In which there's some that take as vain a pride,

As almost in all other things beside:

Some are reaped most substantial like a brush,

Which makes a natural wit known by the bush;

And in my time of some men I have heard,

Whose wisdom hath been only wealth and Beard:

Many of these the proverb well doth fit,

Which says bush natural more hair than wit:

Some seem as they were starched stiff and fine,

Like to the bristles of some angry swine;

And some, to set their loves' desire on edge,

Are cut and prun'd like to a quickset hedge.

Some like a spade, some like a fork, some square,

Some round, some mow'd like stubble, some stark bare,

Some sharp, stilletto-fashion, dagger-like,

That may, with whispering, a man's eyes outpike.

Some with the hammer cut or Roman T,

Their Beards extravagant reform'd must be;

Some with the quadrate, some triangle-fashion,

Some circular, some oval in translation;

Some perpendicular in longitude,

Some like a thicket for their crassitude.

The heighths, depths, breadths, triform, square, oval, round,

And rules geometrical in Beards are found.""