[86] Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, in a letter dated Feb. 26, 1711, to her future husband, proposing that their engagement should cease, says that she had foolishly despised women who looked for their happiness in trifles, and thought, as Dryden puts it, that true happiness was to be found in privacy and love. "These notions had corrupted my judgment as much as that of Mrs. Biddy Tipkin's." [87] Urganda was an enchantress in the Amadis and Palmeria romances. [88] Musidorus, in Sir P. Sidney's _Arcadia_, is the Prince of Thessaly, and in love with Pamela. [89] Parthenissa was the heroine of at romance of that name by Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, the first two parts of which appeared in 1651. [90] Statira, in _Cassandra_, was the widow of Alexander the Great, and the daughter of Darius. She married Oroondates after many difficulties had been overcome. [91] Garraway's coffee house, in Change Alley. Thomas Garraway, tobacconist and coffee-man, was the first to retail tea, which he recommended for the cure of all disorders. See _Tatler_, No. 147; _Spectator_, Nos. 403, 457. Garraway's was the resort of merchants. [92] Prior has several poems on this subject:-- "From her own native France, as old Alison passed, She reproached English Nell with neglect or with malice, That the slattern had left in the hurry and haste Her lady's complexion and eyebrows at Calais." And, again, "Helen was just slipped into bed, Her eyebrows on the toilette lay, Away the kitten with them fled, As fees belonging to her prey. For this misfortune careless Jane, Assure yourself, was loudly rated, And madam getting up again, With her own hand the mouse-trap baited. On little things as sages write, Depends our human joy or sorrow; If we don't catch a mouse to-night, Alas! no eyebrows for to-morrow." And on another occasion, when her eyebrow box was lost, Helen says: "I can behold no mortal now, For what's an eye without a brow?" [93] A coupee is a motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the ground, while a forward motion is made with the the other leg. [94] Valentine and Orson, the two twin sons of Alexander, Emperor of Constantinople, in the old romance, were born in a wood. [95] Cf. Molière's _Le Sicilien_, scene xiii.:--"Si votre pinceau flatte autant que votre langue, vous allez me faire un portrait qui ne me resemblera point." [96] See the _Vicar of Wakefield_, Chap. XVI.:--"As for our neighbour's family, there were seven of them, and they were drawn with seven oranges, a thing quite out of taste, no variety in life, no composition in the world." The vicar's wife was painted as Venus, with two Cupids; the vicar, in gown and band, presenting her with his books on the Whistonian controversy. Olivia was an amazon, Sophia a shepherdess, "with as many sheep as the painter could put in for nothing."