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How much more lively is the Oxford couplet on the King, who, being bored by some amateur theatricals, twice or thrice made as if he would leave the hall, where men failed dismally to entertain him. "The King himself did offer," "What, I pray?" "He offered twice or thrice to go away!" As a result of the example of the Court, the students began to wear love-locks.
This was a nimble way by which confessors fined penitents to their own profit. Annual and other customary masses to be said without temporal gain. Priestly administration only to be undertaken by those who are proved to be duly ordained by the archbishop or one of his suffragans: forged orders being plentiful. Incumbents to be tonsured, and clergy to wear "the crown" instead of love-locks.
It is the fashion to-day to decry the cavaliers and the wearers of "love-locks," but they had a pretty taste in art and an eye for artistic surroundings, those old fellows of the sword and cloak; a much more pretty taste than their descendants, the steam-heat and running-water partisans of to-day.
All these engravings, with a unanimity not common in the portraiture of the time, show the same face: a face of delicate, almost feminine beauty, framed in the long full love-locks of the period. The eyes are large and dark, the figure small but well made, and the general expression of the countenance one of almost boyish smoothness and simplicity.
And there is the gay young Lord Dalgarno, that carries the craft of gray hairs under his curled love-locks a fair race they are, father, daughter, and son, all of the same honourable family. I think we needna speak of George Heriot, honest man, when we have nobility in question. So that is the company I have heard of your keeping, my lord, out-taken those of the ordinary."
A pointed cap with some tawdry gold lace on it covered his head, and greasy black love-locks writhed filthily over his high cheek bones and into his scanty tangled beard; a suspicious hilt bound with brass wire reared its snake-like head from the folds of his belt, and his legs, terminating in thick-soled native shoes, reminded one of a tarantula in boots.
"Dost thou remember the man who gave thee the fall to-day?" "By the love-locks of Bacchus, have I not a bruised shoulder to help me keep it in mind?" and he seconded the words with a shrug that submerged his ears. "Well, be thou grateful to the Fates I have found thy enemy. Listen." Thereupon Messala turned to Drusus.
It was a savage snip, and half the length and width of her love-locks fell on the mantle; then she gave another snip, and the other half fell. Lucia scarcely dared to breathe. For a moment Octavia stood gazing at herself, with pale face and dilated eyes. Then suddenly the folly of the deed she had done seemed to reveal itself to her. "Oh!" she cried out. "Oh, how diabolical it looks!"
That the Puritan cut love-locks off, wore drab, smashed painted windows and suppressed instrumental music in churches, is no proof of their being utterly inartistic. Their art-sense would simply find vent and expression in other directions if it existed strongly enough. And what do we find?
He led me back into the banqueting-hall, his bedroom candle in his hand, and he held it up against the time-stained portrait on the wall. "Do you see anything there?" I looked at the broad plumed hat, the curling love-locks, the white lace collar, and the straight, severe face which was framed between them.
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