Note 92 — SCENE I.—Mrs. Clerimont's Room.

Prior has several poems on this subject:—

"From her own native France, as old Alison passed, She reproached English Nell with neglect or with malice, That the slattern had left in the hurry and haste Her lady's complexion and eyebrows at Calais."

And, again,

"Helen was just slipped into bed, Her eyebrows on the toilette lay, Away the kitten with them fled, As fees belonging to her prey. For this misfortune careless Jane, Assure yourself, was loudly rated, And madam getting up again, With her own hand the mouse-trap baited. On little things as sages write, Depends our human joy or sorrow; If we don't catch a mouse to-night, Alas! no eyebrows for to-morrow."

And on another occasion, when her eyebrow box was lost, Helen says:

"I can behold no mortal now, For what's an eye without a brow?"