The Pardoner had hair as yellow as wax,
But smooth it hung, as doth a strike of flax;
By ounces hung his lockés that he had,
And therewith he his shoulders overspread,
Full thin it lay by culpons, on and on.
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No beard had he, no ever none should have,
As smooth it was as it were newe shave.”
The “shipman,” we know not if he had “the long gray beard, and glittering eye,” of The Ancient Mariner, but
“With many a tempest had his beard been shaken;”