, in his third
Vision on the Last Judgment
, has carry'd the Humour very far, when he tells us that one of his vain-glorious Countrymen, after having receiv'd Sentence, was taken into custody by a couple of evil Spirits; but that his Guides happening to disorder his Mustachoes, they were forced to recompose them with a Pair of Curling-irons before they could get him to file off.
If we look into the History of our own Nation, we shall find that the Beard flourish'd in the
Saxon
Heptarchy, but was very much discourag'd under the
Norman
Line. It shot out, however, from time to time, in several Reigns under different Shapes. The last Effort it made seems to have been in
Queen Mary's
Days, as the curious Reader may find, if he pleases to peruse the Figures of