Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 444
and never after resumed wig-wearing. CHAPTER XII THE BEARD Though yours be sorely luggd and tornIt does your Visage more adorn Than if twere prund, and starchd, and launder dAnd cut square by the Russian standard. — Hudibras, Samuel Butler. Now of beards there be such companyAnd fashions such a… … CHAPTER XII THE BEARD ENS hair on their heads hath everbeen at odds with that on their face.If the head were well covered and thehair long, then the face was smoothshaven. William the Conqueror hadshort hair and a beard, then came along-haired king, then a cropped one; EdwardIVs subjects had long…
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