Eclogue XXVI. — This Line, which is Anonymous, shows what should be removed from the Body on certain Days

Clip nails on Tuesday, beards on Wednesday, hair on Friday. The above Line may be Confuted in the following Way Mercury likes a thief's nails ever-sharpened, and suffers not the fingers to lose their points. His beard is Jove's, her hair is Venus' glory: therefore these needs must mislike the minishing of that in which they severally delight. Thou, Mars, lovest the beardless, and thou, Moon, the bald: these do not forbid hair and cheeks to be trimmed. The Sun and Saturn have no scruples as to nails: therefore cancel that line of which gods disapprove.