| 1. | "I am as bare of coin as a friar's tonsure of hair.. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 2. | Get down, baldpoll A choir gives back menace and echo, assisting about the altar's horns, the snorted Latin of jackpriests moving burly in their albs, tonsured and oiled and gelded, fat with the fat of kidneys of wheat. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |