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And while the result of shaving is a mere negation, depriv-
ing us of a natural protection, and exposing us to disease,
the other process, consume what time we will, is natural
and instinctive, and attended with the satisfaction of adding
the grace of neatness to nature's stamp of man's nohility.
III. " That the ladies dont like it I" This Professor
Burdach and Dr. Elliotson, pronounce a foul libel *
Ladies by their very nature like every thing manly; and
though from custom the Beard may at first sight have a
strange look, they will soon be reconciled to it, and think,
with Beatrice, that a man without, "is only fit to be their
waiting gentlewoman." \ I have already mentioned one
instance of a queen despising her husband, because he
was priest-ridden enough to shave ; and here I present you
with a second in this veritable portrait (shewing it) of a
painter in the reign of George I, of the name of Liotard,
* Old Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy adds his quaint
testimony. " No sooner doth a young man see his sweetheart com-
ing, than he smugs up himself, pulls up his cloak, ties Ms garter
points, sets his hand and cuffs, sticks his hah, twires his Beard," &c.
D'Israeli also says, " when the fair sex were accustomed to hehold
their lovers with Beards, the sight of a shaved chin excited feelings
of horror and aversion ; as much indeed as in this less heroic age
would a gallant whose luxuriant Beard should 'Stream like a
meteor to the trouhled air.'"
f The whole dhlogue from whence this phrase is taken, is sug-
gestive of the contempt with which the ladies of E'izabeth and
James the lst's time regarded a hairless chin. And there are
numerous passages in our old Dramatists which might be quoted to
the same effect, hut that some of the allusions do not square with
modern notions of delicacy.
