Volume 1 — CHAPTER XI
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PERUKES AND PERIWIGS
“As to a Periwigg, my best and Greatest Friend begun to find me with Hair before I was Born, and has continued to do so ever since, and I could not find it in my Heart to go to another.” —“Diary,” JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL, 1718. A phrensy or a periwigmanee That over-runs his pericranie. —JOHN BYRON, 1730 (circa).