Note 52 — Chapter VII · MIDDLESEX ELECTIONS, 1768-9.
Reading edition
The “cornuted” effect of these peculiarly fashioned wigs, especially when seen from the back, is, perhaps, accountable—with the pun on the parson’s Christian name of Horne—for the quotation engraved above the plate in question,—“Mine horn shall be exalted, like the horn of an Unicorn (Psalm 93).”