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 reap'd most substantial like a brush,

Which makes a nat'rel wit known by the bush;

And in my time of some men I have heard,

Whose wisdom have 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,