The Philosophy of Beards.
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The promising Edward the 6th died before his Beard developed; his sister Mary's husband had one of the true Spanish cut.
In the time of "good Queen Bess." when
"The grave Lord Chancellor[1] led the dance.
And seal and mace tripped down before him,"
she, who was no prude, and had a right royal sympathy with every thing manly and becoming, surrounded herself with men, who to the most punctilious courtesy, joined the most adventurous spirit; and the Beard, as might have been expected, grew and flourished mightily. Hence we are not surprised at the wonderful efforts made by her
- ↑ It surely will not be denied by any Judge of taste, that the Chancellor and other legal dignitaries would look more dignified in their own hair and with Beards of "reverend grey," than in the present absurd, fantastic, unnatural and unbecoming frosted ivy bushes, with a black crow's nest in the centre, in which Minerva might more readily mistake them for stray specimens of her favorite bird, the owl, than for learned, intelligent, and logical " sages of the law.
