You are a dotard. Go and get your head shaved like other lunatics. (See Bath.)
“Thou thinkst that monarchs never can act ill,
Get thy head shaved, poor fool, or think so still.”
Peter Pindar: Ode Upon Ode.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.