CGI.pmでfavicon.icoを埋め込むには?

print &CGI::start_html;

を使うと、

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/hoge/favicon.ico">

が埋め込むことができない。
CGI.pmを覗いてみる限りでは、

#### Method: start_html
# Canned HTML header
#
# Parameters:
# $title -> (optional) The title for this HTML document (-title)
# $author -> (optional) e-mail address of the author (-author)
# $base -> (optional) if set to true, will enter the BASE address of this document
#          for resolving relative references (-base) 
# $xbase -> (optional) alternative base at some remote location (-xbase)
# $target -> (optional) target window to load all links into (-target)
# $script -> (option) Javascript code (-script)
# $no_script -> (option) Javascript <noscript> tag (-noscript)
# $meta -> (optional) Meta information tags
# $head -> (optional) any other elements you'd like to incorporate into the <head> tag
#           (a scalar or array ref)
# $style -> (optional) reference to an external style sheet
# @other -> (optional) any other named parameters you'd like to incorporate into
#           the <body> tag.
####

となっていて、faviconの指定に該当するパラメータは無さそう。
faviconを使うにはCGI::start_htmlの使用を断念するしかないのだろうか。