Ουλη τε ην αυτω, και αγαν συνεχης η κομη Crispume erat, & spissum capillitium, & propter frequentes canos PUBLIC LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND PREFACE. O do honour to the subject of the following Memoirs, and to give some account of its origin, its progress to the magnificence it once boasted, and its present degeneracy, the Editor holds it incumbent on him to bring together what he finds scattered in different authors, concerning this singular ornament of the human head. As to the Etymology of the word, it is far from being settled. Minshew writes it Perwicke or Perruqe, i. e. a woman's hood, and hence Periwig and Wig. Menage most ludicrously derives it after this manner, Pilus |