Methinks she makes almost as fair a sign / As some old gentlewoman in a periwig.

[T]he sun
Grown stale, is to so low a value run,
That his dishevel'd beams and scattered fires
Serve but for ladies' periwigs and tyres
In lovers' sonnets […]

The floods in icie fetters bound.
Crusted earth. Every honey-headed twig
Wears his snowie Periwig,
And every bough his snowy beard.

From her own Head, Megwra takes
A Perriwig of twisted Snakes;
Which in the nicest Fashion curl'd,
Like Toupets of this upper World […]

Periwig

Meaning

Noun

Verb