[ London Magazine ]
The London Magazine; or The Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer was a monthly magazine of news and literature, originally founded in 1732; it closed in 1785, then reopened in 1805. Changing hands and titles a number of times since, it continues to publish today.
In August 1774 the magazine published an excerpt from The Cozeners, a comic play by Samuel Foote (1721 - 1777), a noted actor and playwright of the time who specialized in satire and comedy.
Then, ma'am, his wig! Oh, you would doat on his dear wig! None of your bushy frights! none of your waving curls that hang like the hair of a Newfoundland dog! The curls are stiff as a cauliflower, and it flies off so smug, that you may see his dear round rosy cheeks to the utmost advantage! (363)
A more substantive excerpt from Foote's play, but including the above passage, was published in The Hibernian Magazine also in August 1774.