He goes unto the wars to filch and raven,

And play such pranks he cannot do at home.

Such pranks become not those that beards do weare:

And what harm is it if long beards we beare?

For so it is apparent to be scene,

That we are men, not women, by our chin. —Molle.


Timocles. (Book xiii. § 22, p. 908.)

Wretch that I am,

She had my love, when a mere caper-gatherer,