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subjects in arms, and arts, unci literature, so as to make
her reign an era to which we look back with patriotic
pride, and from which our best writers still draw as from
a well of deep perennial flow.*
A feeble reflection of some of the heads of this period
were exhibited on the walls of the lecture room, as the
sagacious Burleigh; the adventurousKaleigh ; the rash but
brave Essex; Nottingham, the High Admiral who scattered
the Armada; Gresham the Merchant Prince, who found
his Beard no hindrance to business; and the Poet of
Poets, whether ancient or modern, Shakspeare.
As might be expected, the dramatic literature of the
* Although an attempt was made in this reign to restrain the
growth of legal Beards by some pragmatical heads of Lincoln's Inn,
who passed a resolution " that no fellow of that house should wear
a Beard of above a fortnight's growth;" and although transgression
was punished with fine, loss of commons, and final expulsion, sucb
was the vigorous resistance to this act of tyranny, that in the follow
ing year all previous orders respecting Beards were repealed. Percy
Anecdotes.
About the same time also in Germany the moustache was par-
tially substituted for the Beard, as appears by Berckemej's Europ.
Antiq. p. 294, who under the year 1564 says, the Archbishop Sigis-
mund introduced in Magdeburgh the custom of shaving off the full
Beard and wearing instead a moustache. The year in which this
Beard-reformation (de-formation?) happened, was contained in this
pentameter—
" Longa slglsMVnDo barba IVbente per It."
"Sigismund commanding, the long Beard perished in
A1DLVV ( = X ) [HI, or L564 "
