So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat,

While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.

James Bramston (1694-1744): Man of Taste.

And how should I know your true love

From many another one?

Oh, by his cockle hat and staff,

And by his sandal shoone.

Thomas Percy (1728-1811): The Friar of Orders Gray.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

I had a hat. It was not all a hat,—

Part of the brim was gone:

Yet still I wore it on.

John Keble (1792-1866): Rhine Song of the German Soldiers after Victory.

A hat not much the worse for wear.

William Cowper (1731-1800): History of John Gilpin.

The Quaker loves an ample brim,

A hat that bows to no salaam;

And dear the beaver is to him

As if it never made a dam.

Thomas Hood (1798-1845): All round my Hat.

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!

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): The Last Leaf.

As with my hat upon my head

I walk'd along the Strand,

I there did meet another man

With his hat in his hand.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Johnsoniana. George Steevens. 310.