Note 632 — V 1706-1816
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A sua alma conversava com Bernardes e Ferreira, says his friend Tolentino, who advises another cabelleireiro poet to cease writing verses, since vale mais que cem sonetos a peior penteadura. The Arte de Furtar mentions a barber who sank still lower, since he left his profession in order to cut purses. The modern writer Antonio Francisco Barata (1836-1910) likewise began life as a poor hairdresser at Coimbra.