of King Charles the First, which has the whole Book of Psalms
written in the lines of the face, and, the hair of the head. When I
was last at Oxford I perused one of the whiskers, and was reading
the other, but could not go so far in it as I would have done, by
reason of the impatience of my friends and fellow-travellers, who
all of them pressed to see such a piece of curiosity. I have since
heard, that there is now an eminent writing-master in town, who has
transcribed all the Old Testament in a full-bottomed periwig: and
if the fashion should introduce the thick kind of wigs which were in
vogue some few years ago, he promises to add two or three
supernumerary locks that should contain all the Apocrypha. He
designed this wig originally for King William, having disposed of
the two Books of Kings in the two forks of the foretop; but that
glorious monarch dying before the wig was finished, there is a space
left in it for the face of any one that has a mind to purchase it.

But to return to our ancient poems in picture. I would humbly
propose, for the benefit of our modern smatterers in poetry, that
they would imitate their brethren among the ancients in those
ingenious devices. I have communicated this thought to a young
poetical lover of my acquaintance, who intends to present his
mistress with a copy of verses made in the shape of her fan; and, if
he tells me true, has already finished the three first sticks of it.
He has likewise promised me to get the measure of his mistress's
marriage finger with a design to make a posy in the fashion of a
ring, which shall exactly fit it. It is so very easy to enlarge
upon a good hint, that I do not question but my ingenious readers
will apply what I have said to many other particulars; and that we
shall see the town filled in a very little time with poetical
tippets, handkerchiefs, snuff-boxes, and the like female ornaments.