Note 396 — RAPE OF THE LOCK.
Reading edition
Sandys's Paraphrase of the Song of Solomon, 1641:
One hair of thine in fetters ties.
Buchanan, Epigram, lib. i. xiv.:
Et modo membra pilo vinctus miser abstrahoruno.—Steevens.
Dryden's Persius, v. 247:
She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.