Street-End House, near Canterbury.
_Words are men's daughters_ (Vol. iii., p. 38.).--I take this to be a
proverbial sentence. In the _Gnomologia_ of Fuller we have "Words are for
women; actions for men"--but there is a nearer approach to it in a letter
written by Sir Thomas Bodley to his librarian about the year 1604. He says,
"Sir John Parker hath promised more than you have signified: but words
are women, and deeds are men."
It was no doubt an adoption of the worthy knight, and I shall leave it to
others to trace out the true author--hoping it may never be ascribed to an
ancestor of