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The promising Edward the Gtli 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* 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 advenLurous 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
told by Dr. Ehle in his work on the hair, where mention is made
of two seven-foot giants with Beards down to their toes, at the
court of one of the German sovereigns. They both fell in love
with the same woman, and their master decided that whichever
should succeed in putting his rival into a sack, should have the
maiden. One of them sacked the other after a long duel before
the whole court, and married the girl. That the pah* lived happily
afterwards, as the Novelists say, is proved by their having as many
signs of affection as there are in the Zodiac; and it is worthy of
remark, both physiologically and astrologically, that the whole
twelve were born under one sign, Gemini.
* It surely will not be denied by any Judge of taste, that the
Chancellor and other legal dignitaries would look more dignified
in then* own hah* 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 favor-
ite bird, the owl, than for learned, intelligent, and logical " sages of
the law."
