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bunnyjadwigaThe Dirt on Clean Katherine Ashenburg, p. 100-101
says that Mistress Twist, Queen Elizabeth I's court laundress, gave her queen a present of: "four tooth-cloths of coarse Holland wrought with black silk and edged with bone lace."
Ashenburg also says Elizabeth had gold toothpicks and a ruby-studded gold earpick.
At the nether end, she quotes part of a "Song" by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, 1680... "Song. By all Loves soft, yet mighty Pow'rs" on, ahem, cleanliness of the lady's nether parts: "..using Paper still behind, And Spunges for before." (see http://dev.hil.unb.ca/Texts/EPD/UNB/view-works.cgi?c=wilmotjo.1504&pos=1)
says that Mistress Twist, Queen Elizabeth I's court laundress, gave her queen a present of: "four tooth-cloths of coarse Holland wrought with black silk and edged with bone lace."
Ashenburg also says Elizabeth had gold toothpicks and a ruby-studded gold earpick.
At the nether end, she quotes part of a "Song" by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, 1680... "Song. By all Loves soft, yet mighty Pow'rs" on, ahem, cleanliness of the lady's nether parts: "..using Paper still behind, And Spunges for before." (see http://dev.hil.unb.ca/Texts/EPD/UNB/view-works.cgi?c=wilmotjo.1504&pos=1)
