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
ring. CHAPTER XII THE BEARD Though yours be sorely luggd and tornIt does your Visage more adorn Than if ^tivere 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 throngThat it is very hard… … 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 subjecrs had long…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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