Man of few words

Could it be that Shakespeare, hardly a man of few words, coined this expression? He certainly used it in the plural form in Henry V, Act III, Scene II, “Men of few words are the best.” Shakespeare may have been inspired, however, by an earlier thought from the Bible, Ecclesiastes, 5:2, “Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for god is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.”