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Wit's Recreations,
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Oh, doe but marke yon crisped sir, you meet! How like a pageant he doth walk the street! See how his perfumed head is powdered ore; 'Twou'd stink else, for it wanted salt before.
human
Musarum Deliciæ,
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At the devill's shopps you buy A dresse of powdered hayre, On which your feathers flaunt and fly; But i'de wish you have a care, Lest Lucifer's selfe, who is not prouder, Do one day dresse up your haire with a powder.
human
The Impartial Monitor. The author closes with a tirade against female follies in these words:
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It were a good deed to tell men also of mealing their heads and shoulders, of wearing fardingales about their legs, etc.; for these likewise deserve the rod, since all that are discreet do but hate and scorn them for it.
human
From a king-killing saint, Patch, powder, and paint, Libera nos, Domine.
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City Madam,
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Since your husband was knighted, as I said, The reverend hood cast off, your borrowed hair Powdered and curled, was by your dresser's art, Formed like a coronet, hanged with diamonds And richest orient pearls.
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Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London,
human
Him like the Miller, pass with caution by, Lest from his shoulder clouds of powder fly.
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Annals of the Barber-Surgeons some particulars respecting the taxing of powder. On 8th August 1751,
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Mr John Brooks, it is stated,