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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

By coach home, calling by the way at Charing cross and there saw the
great Dutchman that is come over, under whose arm I went with my hat
on and could not reach higher then his eyebrows with the tip of my
fingers, reaching as high as I could.  He is a comely and well-made
man, and his wife a very little but pretty comely Dutch woman.  It
is true he wears pretty high-heeled shoes, but not very high, and
doth generally wear a Turbant, which makes him show yet taller then
he really is, though he is very tall as I have said before.

		-- Pepys' Diary, 15 Aug. 1664

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