...dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin new reap'd Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home. He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger...pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again (Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff) and still he smil'd...

...mentioned by Shakespeare is another name for the pomander or dry-scent box: HOISPOR. And twixt his fingers and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon he gave His nose and took't away again. Henry IV, Act I, sc. 3 Though the pace set for perfumes by Henry III of France and...

...1589. Phyllis Rackin, Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles (London, 1990), p. 94. . . .'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box,...therewith angry, when it next came there Took it in snuff- and still he smiled and talked (1.3.37-40) is usually considered to be a satire on the Elizabethan...

...dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home: He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger...pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again; HENRY IV PART 1 , ACT 1 , SCENE reap'd: shaved milliner: someone who makes hats...

...dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home: He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger...pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again; HENRY IV PART 1 , ACT 1 , SCENE 3 reap'd: shaved milliner: someone who makes hats...