Note 31 — MODERN HISTORY.
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A Ben Jonson, among other allusions to the Beard, has the following:—
I am heartily grieved a Beard of your grave length
Should be so over-reach’d. (“The Fox.”)
In his Alchemist Subtle telling Drugger’s fortune says—
——“This summer
He will be of the clothing of his company,
And next spring called to the scarlet.”
Face. What and so little Beard![32]