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But on the morrowe after one of their women is maried, shee shaues her scalpe from the middest of her head downe to her forehead, and weares a wide garment like vnto the hood of a Nunne, yea larger and longer in all parts then a Nuns hood, being open before and girt vnto them vnder the right side.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

But on the morrowe after one of their women is maried, shee shaues her scalpe from the middest of her head downe to her forehead, and weares a wide garment like vnto the hood of a Nunne, yea larger and longer in all parts then a Nuns hood, being open before and girt vnto them vnder the right side.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Whole salvos of injections stimulated and calmed him, and for a short time put him to sleep-while heaven knew what pokings by scalpe! and probe investigated the muscle tensions of his innermost system.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

I came to a goodlie bridge, and vppon the same, in a Porphyrite stone vppon the one side, and an Ophite vpon the other, I beheld engrauen certaine Hieragliphs, both which I did interprete, but I stoode doubtfull of certaine branches, that were tyed to the hornes of the scalpe of the Oxe, and the rather because they were in the Porphyrite stone, and not in the Ophit vpon the other side.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

First, the horned scalpe of an oxe, with two tooles of husbandry fastned to the hornes.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

I saw fearefull vypers and winding serpents growing out from the scalpe of the monstrous head confusedly twysting together and hissing, so liuely portrayed and set foorth, that they made me afrayde to behould them.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

The bony scalpe of an oxe with two green braunches of trees bound fast to the hornes.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

For sitting so with bared scalpe, an Eagle sored hye,

Shepheardes Calendar 1579

I thinke I am litle better, my scalpe is clouen to the braine,

Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575

4 His monstrous scalpe downe to his teeth it tore,

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser