![]() * Ptolomy naming Britaine the great and the less, hath been by some mistaken, as so dividing the Island into two parts but his proportion and distance from the Equator, compared with his Geographical description will evince, that he calleth this our Island Great Britaine, and Ireland Brittaine the lesse. ![]() *Our most ancient Historians begin with Brute, and so continue the succession of Kings till CHARLES the First which Brutus divided the Kingdome into three parts: To Locrinus he gave Loegria now England, to Camber his second sonne he gave Cambria now VVales, and to Albanist or Albanact, Albania now Scotland. To Brittish glory Latiums wealth was naught. say with the Royall Psalmist, Our lives are fallen in pleasant places, yea we have a pleasant In∣heritance which whatsoever by the goodness of God, and industry of man it is now, yet our English Poet hath truly described unto us the first face thereof, thus: That Brittaine therefore is the Seas High-admiral is most Famously known, and the fortu∣nate Island supposed by some, as Robert of Amesbury doth shew whose Aire is more tempe∣rate (saith Cæsar) then France whose foyle bringeth forth all graine in abundance (saith Tacitus ) whose Seas produce Orient Pearle, (saith Suetonius ) whose fields are the Seat of a Summer Queen (saith Orpheus) her wildest parts free from Wild Beasts, saith the ancient Panegyrick and her chiefe City worthily called Augusta, saith Amianus. It hath little Brittain, Normandy, and other parts of France upon the South Germany, Denmarke, and Norway upon the East, the Iles of Orkney and the Deucalidonian sea upon the North, Hebrides upon the West: and from it all o∣ther Ilands and Ilets which doe scatteredly environ it, and shelter themselves, as it were, under the shaddow of great Albion (another name of this famous Iland) are also accounted Brittish.īrittaine thus seated in the Ocean hath her prayses not onely in this present sense, and use of her commodities, but also in those honourable Eulogies, which the learnedest of Antiqua∣ries have collected out of the noblest Authors, that he scarce doth seem to have left any glea∣nings neither will we transplant them out of his flourishing gardens, but as necessity com∣pels, since nothing can be further or otherwise better said. It is by experience found to lie included from the Degree Fifty and thirty scruples of latitude and for longitude extended from the 13 degree and 20 minutes, unto the 22 and 50 minutes, according to the observation of Mercator. Or Pontus welking from Gades warmer Isle. Laurence, both which are neer or un∣der the Equinoctiall line in which we will not contend, as pleasing our selves with her other praises, far exceeding her Greatnesse yet with this Honour also, that it was without Questi∣on the greatest Island of the Roman world, and for any thing yet certainly known, of all the rest: concerning whose positure in respect of Heaven, Lucretius the first of the Latine Writers that names Brittain, seemeth to place it in the same parallel with Pontus where he saith, The Island of Great Brittaine containeth the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, and is of many counted the greatest Island in the world, though Justus Lipsius gives that praise to Cuba in America, as the Ori∣ental Navigators unto Sumatra, (taken from Ptolomey's Taprobana) or to Madagascar the Island of St. It can take months for the regrowth to take a firm hold, but once it does you'll be seriously investing in razor blades.THe state of every Kingdom well managed by prudent government, seems to represent a humane body guided by the soveraignty of a reasona∣ble soul: the Country and the Land representing the one the Actions and State-affairs the other. But beard transplants have now progressed to the point where small clumps of hair, transplanted from the middle of the back of the neck, can be sown into facial skin, even tissue scarred by burns or teen acne. Survey after survey has shown that women prefer clean-shaven men or, at most, a dusting of stubble, which doesn't stop blokes from growing beards as a simple assertion of their masculinity, especially if they're losing hair on top.Īs beard thickness is dictated by genes and skin type, until recently you couldn't do much about patchy coverage. According to Marie Claire's authoritative 2018 article, "23 Hot Dudes with Bad Facial Hair", stars like Pitt and Beckham should invest in a razor, which indeed they do most of the time. But when you're as handsome as those guys, you can get away with anything. David Beckham's beard is as patchy as a quilt, Keanu Reeves's is just mangy, Brad Pitt's is a scraggly mess, and Matthew McConaughey's is a riot of bum fluff. It's not just everyday hipsters who can be beard challenged. ![]() Patchy coverage (from left): Matthew McConaughey, Keanu Reeves and David Beckham have all been declared beard-challenged.
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