They would not let a dram of dead pay overslip them; they
would not lend a groat of the week to come, to him that had
spent his money before this week was done. They outfaced
the greatest and most magnanimous servitors in their sincere
and finigraphical clean shirts and cuffs. A louse (that was any
gentleman’s companion) they thought scorn of; their near-bitten
beards must in a devil’s name be dewed every day with rose-water;
hogs could have ne’er a hair on their backs, for making them
rubbing-brushes to rouse their crab-lice. They would in no wise
permit that the motes in the sunbeams should be full-mouthed
beholders of their clean finified apparel; their shoes shined as bright
as a slickstone; their hands troubled and foiled more water with
washing than the camel doth, that never drinks till the whole
stream be troubled.