Chapter 25

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.