CHAPTER XI. Perukes and Periwigs

PERUKES AND PERIWIGS

“As to a Periwigg, my best and Greatest Friend begun to find me with Hair before I was Born, and has continued to do so ever since, and I could not find it in my Heart to go to another.” —“Diary,” JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL, 1718.

A phrensy or a periwigmanee That over-runs his pericranie.

—JOHN BYRON, 1730 (circa).