— I do not remember any other kind of Work among the Moderns which more resembles the Performances I have mentioned, than that famous Picture of King
Charles
the First, which has the whole Book of
Psalms
written in the Lines of the Face and the Hair of the Head. When I was last at
Oxford
I perused one of the Whiskers; and was reading the other, but could not go so far in it as I would have done, by reason of the Impatience of my Friends and Fellow-Travellers, who all of them pressed to see such a Piece of Curiosity. I have since heard, that there is now an eminent Writing-Master in Town, who has transcribed all the
Old Testament
in a full-bottomed Periwig; and if the Fashion should introduce the thick kind of Wigs which were in Vogue some few Years ago, he promises to add two or three supernumerary Locks that shall contain all the
Apocrypha