"Lawn as white as driven snow,
Cyprus black as any crow."
Again, in "Twelfth Night"—
"A cyprus, not a bosom
Hides my poor heart."—S.
409. i.e., Rollers in which infants were swathed. So, in "Timon of Athens"—
"Had thou, like us, from thy first swath," &c.—S.
410 Uprising, edit. 1569. 411. Frontal, Fr., a frontlet, or forehead band.—Cotgrave. A frontlet is mentioned as part of a woman's dress in Lyly's "Midas," 1592: "Hoods, frontlets, wires, cauls, curling-irons, periwigs, bodkins, fillets, hair laces, ribbons, rolls, knotstrings, glasses," &c. See also Mr Steevens's note on "King Lear," A. 1, S. 4.
412. Ruffs or bands for women. See Glossary to Douglas's "Translation of Virgil."
413. Little bodkins or puncheons.—Cotgrave, voce pinçonnet.
414. It, edit. 1569.
415. Prycke, 1st edit. 416. They be, edit. 1569.