Under whose gold and silver reign ’twas said,
So many ages since, we all should smile!
No impositions, taxes, grievances,
Knots in a state, and whips unto a subject,
Lie lurking in this Beard, but all combed out.”
In his Queen of Corinth we learn that—
“The Roman T, your T-Beard is the fashion,
And twifold doth express the enamoured courtier
As full as your fork carving doth the traveller.”
The last line alluding to Coryate the traveller’s recent introduction of the dinner-fork from Italy.