Chapter 23

PERUKES AND PERIWIGS

_“As to a Periwigg, my best and Greatest Friend begun to find me with Hair before I was Born, and has continued to do so ever since, and I could not find it in my Heart to go to another.” _ —“Diary,” JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL, 1718.

_A phrensy or a periwigmanee That over-runs his pericranie._

—JOHN BYRON, 1730 (circa).