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prince in disguise, having been elected "King of the
Beggars-' on account of his Beard ; Higgen the Orator of
the Troop proceeds in this fashion :—
"J then presaged thou shortly wouldst he king,
And now thou art so. But what need presage
To us, that might have read it in thy Beard,
As well as lie that chose thee! By the Beard
Thou wert found out and marked for sovereignty.
0 happy Beard ! hut happier Prince, whose Beard
Was so remarked as marked out our Prince
Not hating us a hah. Long may it grow,
And thick and fair, that who hves under it
May live as safe as under Beggar's Bush,
Of which it is the thing—that hut the type.
Tins is the Beard—the bush—or bushy Beard,
Under whose gold and sdver reign 'twas said,
So many ages since, we all should smile!
No impositions, taxes, grievances,
Knots in a state, and whips unto a subject,
Lie lurking in this Beard, but all combed out."
In his Queen of Corinth we learn that—
" The Boman T, your T-Beard is the fashion,
And twifold doth express the enamoured courtier
As full as your fork carving doth the traveller."
The last line alluding to Coryate the traveller's recent
introduction of the dinner-fork from Italy.
Of this Eoman T-Beard another writer humorously
says—
" The Eoman T,
In its bravery,
Doth first itself disclose:
But so high it turns,
That oft it bums
With the flame of a torrid nose."
