Note 16 — Front matter (continued 5)

Shakspeare, who was bald young (and, so far as one can judge from his portraits, had a good set of teeth), suggests a correlation between hairiness and want of wit, which is at least likely to be regarded by those who 'wear his baldness while they're young' as a sound theory. 'Why,' asks Antipholus of Syracuse, 'is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is, so plentiful an excrement?' 'Because,' says Dromio of Syracuse, 'it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts; and what he hath scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit.'