My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.1
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Apothegms. No. 17.
Note 1. Tall men are like houses of four stories, wherein commonly the uppermost room is worst furnished.—Howell (quoted): Letter i. book i. sect. ii. (1621.)
Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.—Thomas Fuller: Andronicus, sect. vi. par. 18, 1.
Such as take lodgings in a head That ’s to be let unfurnished. Samuel Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 161. [back]
