And rules Ge’metricall in beards are found. 
  Besides the upper lip’s strange variation,
  Corrected from mutation to mutation;
  As ’twere from tithing unto tithing sent,
  Pride gives to Pride continuall punishment. 
  Some (spite their teeth) like thatch’d eves downeward grows,
  And some growes upwards in despite their nose. 
  Some their mustatioes of such length doe keepe,
  That very well they may a maunger sweepe: 
  Which in Beere, Ale, or Wine, they drinking plunge,
  And sucke the liquor up, as ’twere a Spunge;
  But ’tis a Slovens beastly Pride, I thinke,
  To wash his beard where other men must drinke. 
  And some (because they will not rob the cup),
  Their upper chaps like pot hookes are turn’d up;
  The Barbers thus (like Taylers) still must be,
  Acquainted with each cuts variety—­
  Yet though with beards thus merrily I play,
  ’Tis onely against Pride which I inveigh: 
  For let them weare their haire or their attire,
  According as their states or mindes desire,
  So as no puff’d up Pride their hearts possesse,
  And they use Gods good gifts with thankfulnesse.[164]

  [163] Formed by the moustache and a chin-tuft, as worn by
        Louis Napoleon and his imperialist supporters.

  [164] Works of John Taylor, the Water Poet, comprised in the
        Folio edition of 1630.  Printed for the Spenser Society,
        1869. “Superbiae Flagellum, or the Whip of Pride,” p. 34.

The staunch Puritan Phillip Stubbes, in the second part of his Anatomie of Abuses (1583), thus rails at the beards and the barbers of his day: 

“There are no finer fellowes under the sunne, nor experter in their noble science of barbing than they be.  And therefore in the fulnes of their overflowing knowledge (oh ingenious heads, and worthie to be dignified with the diademe of follie and vaine curiositie), they have invented such strange fashions and monstrous maners of cuttings, trimings, shavings and washings, that you would wonder to see.  They have one maner of cut called the French cut, another the Spanish cut, one called the Dutch cut, another the Italian, one the newe cut, another the old, one of the bravado fashion, another of the meane fashion.  One a gentlemans cut, another the common cut, one cut of the court, another of the country, with infinite the like vanities, which I overpasse.  They have also other kinds of cuts innumerable; and therefore when you come to be trimed, they will aske you whether you will be cut to looke terrible to your enimie, or amiable to your freend, grime and sterne in countenance, or pleasant and demure (for they have divers kinds of cuts for all these purposes, or else they lie).  Then when they have done all their feats, it is a world to consider, how their mowchatowes [i.e., moustaches] must be preserved and laid out, and from one cheke to another, yea, almost from one eare to another,