“Some Mens Heads are as easily blown away as their Hats.”
George Savile, First Marquis of Halifax, “Of Vanity”, A Character of King Charles the Second, and Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections (London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750), p.144.
Given what happened to Charles II's father, that was a bit pointed.
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ReplyDeleteI forgot about that, Dearieme, my not being a Sweaty Sock, as our Cockney friends might say. Did you eat the Chieftain of the Puddin’ Race?
ReplyDeleteWe had a laxa soup and a delightful Chablis. (But I did say the Selkirk Grace.) Kind of you to enquire.
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