"Clerimont. O prodigy!
"Truewit. And the unconscionable knave held her in compliment an hour with that reversed face, when I still looked when she should talk from the other side.
"Clerimont. Why, thou shouldst have relieved her.
"Truewit. No, faith, I let her alone, as we'll let this argument, if you please, and pass to another."
Ben Jonson, The Silent Woman, Act I. sc. 1.
COMB (ITALIAN, FOURTEENTH CENTURY).
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THE DRESSING OF THE HAIR, MOUSTACHIOS, AND BEARD