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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    Princess of Denmark, afterwards Queen Anne, who on her accession to the throne, gave the heroic periwigs to her favourite and attendant, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, as furniture worthy of her illustrious husband’s cabinet; nay, that would not disgrace the laurels round his head. I therefore once more fell to the share of another hero, who valued me the more for having been in the ser- vice of my former possessor ; whose mi- litary talents he acknowledged and ad- mired, though the result of phlegmatic, stagnate Dutch courage. This great commander, with that en- thusiasm he betrayed on every subject any way connected with martial glory, rapturously exclaimed, “ There is va~ “ lour in every hair of these, they shall “ not be lost; and I trust their lustre “ will not be tarnished in my employ.” He instantly sent for his peruke maker, and gave orders for such an union of both those valuable relics, to be made as
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