Beaux have always been a fruitful and pleasant theme for the satirist’s pen. The _Spectator_, in No. 275, describes the dissection of a beau’s head, which is found to contain no brain, but in the usual place for one, smelling strongly of essences and orange-flower water, a kind of horny substance, cut into a thousand little faces or mirrors. Further, a lot of ribbons, laces, and embroidery, billets-doux, love-letters, snuff, fictions, vows, oaths, and a spongy substance, known as nonsense. A muscle, not often discovered in dissections, was found, the _os cribriforme_, which draws the nose upwards when by that motion it intends to express contempt. The ogling muscles were very much worn with use. The individual to whom this head had belonged had passed for a man for about thirty years, and died in the flower of his youth by the blow of a fire-shovel, he having been surprised by an eminent citizen as he was paying some attentions to his wife. This analysis of a beau’s head, or character, was written in 1712. In 1757 an essayist described him thus in doggerel: ’Would you a modern beau commence, Shake off that foe to pleasure, sense. Scorn real, unaffected worth, Despise the virtuous, good and brave, To ev’ry passion be a slave.... Be it your passion, joy and fame To play at ev’ry modish game.... Harangue on fashion, point and lace.... Affect to know each reigning belle That throngs the playhouse or the Mall. Though swearing you detest a fool, Be versed in Folly’s ample school.... These rites observed, each foppish elf May view an emblem of himself.’