THE BEARD
_“Though yours be sorely lugged and torn
It does your Visage more adorn
Than if ’twere prun’d, and starch’d, and launder’d
And cut square by the Russian standard.”_
—“Hudibras,” SAMUEL BUTLER.
_“Now of beards there be such company
And fashions such a throng
That it is very hard to handle a beard
Tho’ it be never so long.
“’Tis a pretty sight and a grave delight
That adorns both young and old
A well thatch’t face is a comely grace
And a shelter from the cold”_
—“Le Prince d’Amour,” 1660.