A still better word-picture by Forrest illustrates Hogarth’s drawing of Shaving in the Isle of Sheppey:
“Till six o’clock we quiet lay
And then got out for the whole day;
To fetch a barber out we send;
Stripp’d and in boots he doth attend,
For he’s a fisherman by trade;
Tann’d was his face, and shock his head;
He flours our heads and trims our faces,
And the top barber of the place is;