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The feltred beard, and matted locks that fell adown his head and o’er his shoulders strown, were water-pregnant weeds, and seemed it well no soft’ening comb had e’er their tangles known:
Nor lacketh jet-black fringe of mussel-shell, pendent from points where mingled growths are grown:
For cap and cowl upon his head he wore the crusty spoils erst a huge lobster bore.