Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon].

  • Richard Fenton
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Peliis, Pelutus, Peluticus, Pelutica, Peruca, Peruque, just as the Oxford scholar traced the waiter of a tavern whose name was Hooper, to Pepin King of France ; thus, Hooper, Ooper, Aper, Diaper, Napkin, Pipkin, Pepin; or by his laughable logic, thus proved Pigeon pie and Eel pie the same, Pie John is John Pie, John Pie is Jack Pie, Jack pie is Fish pie, Fish pie is Eel pie. It is certain that what we now call a Periwig, hair artificially at- tached to a kind of net-work called a cawl, was not known till within these two centuries and a half; but in a very early age, among the Jews, artificial hair was worn dressed up in curls and figures of various sorts, to which the inspired penmen fre- quently refer, and inveigh against with great severity. Absalom had such thickness of hair, that he polled
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