“Gloves as sweet as damask roses.”
In “Much Ado About Nothing” (iii. 4), Hero says: “These gloves the count sent me; they are an excellent perfume.” Trinity College, Oxford, not ungrateful to its founder and his spouse, has many entries, after the date of 1556, in the Bursar’s books, “pro fumigatis chirothecis,” for perfumed gloves.
Kiss. In years past, a kiss was the recognized fee of a lady’s partner, and as such is noticed in “Henry VIII.” (i. 4):
“I were unmannerly to take you out,
And not to kiss you.”
In “The Tempest” (i. 2) it is alluded to in Ariel’s song:
“Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Court’sied when you have, and kiss’d,
The wild waves whist,
Foot it featly here and there,
And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.”
There is probably a veiled allusion to the same ceremony in “Winter’s Tale” (iv. 4), where, at the dance of shepherds and shepherdesses, the following dialogue occurs:
“Clown.Come on, strike up!
Dorcas. Mopsa must be your mistress: marry, garlic,
To mend her kissing with.
Mopsa.Now, in good time!