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A hat not much worse for wear.
A hat not much worse for wear.
 "Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte
 I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde
  To me read more 
 "Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte
 I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde
  To me by eny other man;
   If my floures ouver fade or falle,
    Then doth my wyfe me wrong wyth alle
     As many a woman can." 
 My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green,
 Let Peggy wear.  
 My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green,
 Let Peggy wear. 
One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
 A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may 
be, is in itself nothing--makes read more 
 A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may 
be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, 
be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the 
hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience, 
reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that 
beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their 
hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of 
their hats'? The cock's all." 
 I know it is a sin
 For me to sit and grin
  At him here;
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 I know it is a sin
 For me to sit and grin
  At him here;
   But the old three-cornered hat
    And the breeches and all that
     Are so queer. 
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
 So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat,
 While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.  
 So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat,
 While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat. 
The hat is the ultimatum moriens of respectability.
The hat is the ultimatum moriens of respectability.