Note 696 — THE HUNCHBACK'S TALE. (continued 3)

The Arabs have a saying corresponding with the dictum of the Salernitan school:—

Noscitur a labiis quantum sit virginis antrum:

Noscitur a naso quanta sit hasta viro;

(A maiden's mouth shows what's the make of her chose;

And man's mentule one knows by the length of his nose.)

Whereto I would add:—

And the eyebrows disclose how the lower wig grows.

The observations are purely empirical but, as far as my experience extends, correct.