From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)
And I did also in a sudden fit cut off all my beard [moustache], which I have been a great while bringin up, only that I may with my pumice-stone do my whole face, as I now do my chin, and so save time---which I find a very easy way and gentile. -- Pepys' Diary, 31 May 1662