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Identifier: 39002011213965.med.yale.edu
Title: The Barbers' company. A paper read before the British archaeological association
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Lambert, George,1823-4--1901
Subjects: Barbers Surgeons
Publisher: (London, T. Brettell & Co., printers)
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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and shears, were wont to clip beards, And pnmmice used, as sharp as pins, Rough tools, to smooth their woolly chins; Rude trimmers who, with rakes and crooks, Combed their plain locks, their glass the brooks; That ancient mirror that, heaven bless us I So fatal proved to poor Narcissus. But when young Jove a wencher grew, Shrewd Hermes (if the bards say true) Invented razor, wash-ball, powder, To make his fopling godship prouder, Shaved him in some celestial arbour, And was the first acknowledged barber. From heaven, with the astherial coal, This art the filch, Prometheus, stole ; And whatsoeer mad poets feign How he by thunder-bolts was slain, And all these fabling things theyve said ont, Twas known he after made a trade ont; Took shop, his pristine pole erected, Throve fast, lived snug, and well respected, Made for green heads, as fame declares, Warm caps, of grey sagacious hairs, Since nick-named by our modern prigs Toupees and bobtail periwigs ; And since his days this art divine,
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©MJ>£R§ ©F FE&RIWIGS, 45 By hireling rogues for sordid coin, Is quite profaned, who scrub mens hides In ale house and by highway sides ; And to the brotherhoods great offence, In alleys shave for single pence, Draw stumps, vend medicines, bleed, and blister, &c all for ends sinister. From this dear gentle occupation The beau acquires his reputation, Gains the smooth lip, clear shorn of hair, So fit to press the tender fan-; The pig tail dangling to the waist, With the white crown bedaubed with paste ; Or the broad bag oer which appears Snow-white, a length of staring ears, The Darby Captain owes to thee His whiskers quaint and Ranimilie That looks so stern, so raven-black on him Would fright old Satan from attacking him The rural squire, that puttish spark, Shines signal by the barbers mark ; By the trim mop, short curled and bob, Close sticking to his empty nob ; By the grey cue or formal tie The dancing master we descry ; The rich old citizen suppose By the wig, smoth

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