No! make me mistress to the man I love."
Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, lines 87, 88.]
O'er whom an Empress her Crown-jewels scattering
Was wed with something better than a ring.—[MS. erased.]
[519] ["Several persons who lived at the court affirm that Catherine had very blue eyes, and not brown, as M. Rulhières has stated."—Life of Catherine II., by W. Tooke, 1800, iii. 382.]
[520] {396}[The historic Catherine (æt. 62) was past her meridian in the spring of 1791.]
[JO] Her figure, and her vigour, and her rigour.—[MS. erased.]
[JP] In its sincere beginning, or dull end.—[MS. erased.]
[JQ] {397}For such all women are just then, no doubt.—[MS.]