This has been made the Magna Charta of stupidity ever since⸺but your reverences plainly see, it has been obtained in such a manner, that the title to it is not worth a groat:⸺which by the by is one of the many and vile impositions which gravity and grave folks have to answer for hereafter.
As for great wigs, upon which I may be thought to have spoken my mind too freely⸻I beg leave to qualify whatever has been unguardedly said to their dispraise or prejudice, by one general declaration⸺That I have no abhorrence whatever, nor do I detest and abjure either great wigs or long beards, any farther than when I see they are bespoke and let grow on purpose to carry on this selfsame imposture—for any purpose⸺peace be with them!—☞ mark only⸺I write not for them.