| [No. 98] | Friday, June 22, 1711 | Addison |
Tanta est quarendi cura decoris.
Juv.
There is not so variable a thing in Nature as a Lady's Head-dress: Within my own Memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty Degrees.
ten Years ago it shot up to a very great Height
, insomuch that the Female Part of our Species were much taller than the Men.
Women were of such an enormous Stature, that
we appeared as Grasshoppers before them