The king, as appears from his effigy, wore flowing curls, confined by a narrow fillet round the temple; his beard and moustache short, from which two small tufts depended on each side of the chin. The “Canterbury Tales” furnish admirable sketches by a master-hand in illustration of our subject. The squire, “a lover and a lusty bachelor,” is pictured “with lockés curl’d as they were laid in press;” the franklin had a beard “White was his beard as is the dayesy;” the merchant-- “A merchant was there with a forked beard;” and the sumpnour, “With sealled browes, black and pilled beard.’ The _Pardoner_ had hair as yellow as wax, But smooth it hung, as doth a strike of flax; By ounces hung his lockés that he had, And therewith he his shoulders overspread, Full thin it lay by culpons, on and on. * * * * * No beard had he, no ever none should have, As smooth it was as it were newe shave.” The “shipman,” we know not if he had “the long gray beard, and glittering eye,” of The Ancient Mariner, but “With many a tempest had his beard been shaken;” the miller’s beard, “As any sow or fox, was red, And thereto broad, as though it were a spade;” and the Reve-- “The Revé was a choleric man, His head was shav’d as nigh as ever he can; His hair was by his earés round yshorn; His top was decked like a priest beforn.” But here we must part company with the pilgrims, and proceed on our way. During the reign of Henry IV., there occurred a marked change of fashion; the hair was now closely cropped round the head. The king retained the beard and moustaches; but, his successor, Henry V., discarded them, and, in his reign, even military men seldom wore moustaches, and none but old men had beards. A kind of horned head-dress was in favour with females, which Lydgate, the monk of Bury, ridicules: “Horns were given to beasts for defence; A thing contrary to feminity-- but “feminity” heeded not.