Some account of the beard and the moustachio, chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / [J. Adey Repton].

  • John Adey Repton
Date:
1839
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Credit: Some account of the beard and the moustachio, chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / [J. Adey Repton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    trim’d with Christ’s cut, round like the halfe of a Holland cheese ?”—Harl. Miscel. vol. ii. 230, 8vo. A passage from Holinshed shews the various arts the barbers possessed of improving the defective or ugly features of their customers. I will sale nothing of our heeds, which some- times are polled, sometimes curled, or suffered to grow at length, like women’s lockes, manie times cut off above and under the eares, round as by a wooden dish. Neither will I meddle with our varietie of beards, of which some are shaven from “ the chin like those of the Turks, not a few cut short like to the beard of Marques Otto, some made round like a rubbing brush, other with a pique devant (O fine fashion!), or now and then suffered to grow long, the barbers being growen to be so cunning in this behalfe as the tailors. And there- “ fore if a man have a lean and streight face, a Mar- quesse Otton’s cut will make it broad and large; if it be platter-like, a long slender beard will make it seeme the narrower ; if he be weesel becked, then ^^much haire left on the cheekes will make the owner look like a bowdled hen, and so grim as a goose, if Cornelis of Chelmerefford saie true ; manie old men weare no beards at all. Some lustie cour- tiers also, and gentlemen, of courage do weare either rings of gold, stones, or pearles in their eares,” &c. (Vol. I. edit. 1550.) In Lyly’s Midas, Act III. sc. 2 (159]), are some instructions from Motto, the barber, to his boy. Motto. — Besides, I instructed thee in the phrasis of our eloquent occupation, as. How, Sir, will c