Making them lightest that wear most of it.

So are the crispéd, snaky, golden locks,

Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,

Upon supposed fairness, often known

To be the dowry of a second head;

The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.”

Merchant of Venice.

The Water-poet was more explicit than elegant when he inveighed against the dames

“Whose borrowed hair (perhaps not long before)

Some wicked trull in other fashion wore;