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 bye 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 self-same imposture--for any purpose----peace be with them! --[-->] mark only ----I write not for them.
As for great wigs, upon which I may have spoken my mind too freely - I declare that I do not detest either great wigs or long beards, except when I see them grown on purpose to carry on this imposture. Peace be with them! mark only - I write not for them.