Note 514 — RAPE OF THE LOCK. (continued 2)
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Pins to adorn the hair were then called bodkins, and Sir George Etherege, in Tonson's Second Miscellany, traces the genealogy of some jewels through the successive stages of the ornament of a cap, the handle of a fan, and ear-rings, till they became, like the gold seal rings, in the Rape of the Lock,
A diamond bodkin in each tress, The badges of her nobleness, For every stone, as well as she, Can boast an ancient pedigree.