Chapter XIII: Part 13

Sir Thomas White, founder of St. John’s College, Oxford, born at Reading. Became a London merchant and a member of the Merchant Taylors’ Company. In 1544 he was elected an Alderman for Cornhill, but refusing to serve was committed to Newgate. In 1547 he was appointed Sheriff and some years later (1554) was elected Lord Mayor of London. He sat on the Commission for the trial of lady Jane Grey, received the Spanish envoys and restored the custom of going in procession to St. Paul’s Cathedral to attend high mass. Upon the outbreak of the Wyatt rebellion Mary appealed to the loyalty of the citizens of London, who in response undertook to raise a force of 1,000 men for its defence. These precautions taken by the Mayor and Council prevented Wyatt from entering the city, the rebels being repulsed from Southwark Bridge by White, who arrested the marquis of Northampton, and presided over the Commission at the trial of Wyatt and his adherents. In 1544 an attempt was made to assassinate him whilst attending St. Paul’s, caused by his issuing a proclamation that the citizens of London should follow the Roman Catholic religion. In the following year he obtained the royal licence to found St. John’s College, Oxford, and subsequently went to reside in that city. He died in February 1567 and was buried in the College Chapel (1492-1567).

_Queen Mary._

THOMAS WYATT.

Sir Thomas Wyatt, the younger son of sir Thomas Wyatt the elder. When a boy he accompanied his father to Spain, where the elder sir Thomas was threatened by the inquisition.

I know Spain. I have been there with my father; I have seen them in
their own land; have marked the haughtiness of their nobles; the
cruelty of their priests.

On the death of his father in 1542 he succeeded to the title and estates, and in the following year was arrested with the earl of Surrey and others for having eaten meat during Lent, and committed to the Tower, where he remained for about a month. When the announcement of the marriage of Mary with Philip was made, Wyatt regarded it as a national danger, and receiving an invitation from Courtenay, earl of Devon, to join in an insurrection for the purpose of preventing it, undertook to raise the county of Kent. Making Rochester his headquarters he marched to Blackheath at the head of four thousand men. Being proclaimed a traitor some two thousand men were enrolled for the protection of the city of London, bridges over the Thames were either strongly guarded or broken down and a reward set upon his head.

_Wyatt_ (_reads_). ‘Whosoever will apprehend the traitor Thomas Wyatt
shall have a hundred pounds for reward.’

On February 3, 1554, he entered Southwark, but many of his followers deserting him was compelled to evacuate it, marched to Kingston where he arrived on February 6, thence through Kensington and reached Ludgate on the morning of February 8. Finding the gate shut against him he retreated to Temple Bar, and finding his cause was lost surrendered. He was taken to the Tower, tried for high treason, condemned and beheaded on Tower Hill, April 11, 1554. On the following day his head (which was stolen some days later), was hanged to a gallows near Hyde Park, and his limbs were distributed among gibbets in various parts of the city of London (1521-1554).

_Queen Mary._

THOR.

The Norse god of thunder.

_The Victim_;
_Harold_.

THOULOUSE.

_See_ =Toulouse=.

THREE HUNDRED.

The ‘Three Hundred’ were two squadrons of the Scots Greys and the 2nd squadron of Inniskillings known as the Heavy Brigade who made the famous charge at Balaclava.

Glory to each and to all, and the charge that they made!
Glory to all the three hundred, and all the Brigade.

_Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava._

THROSTLE.

= The song-thrush, or mavis.

_To the Queen_;
_Claribel_;
_Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere_;
_The Window_;
_Early Spring_;
_The Foresters_.

THRUSH.

A bird of the family _Turdidæ_. It is noted for the sweetness of its song.

_In Memoriam._

THURKILL.

A rich landowner of Kingston in Berkshire, killed at the battle of Senlac.

_Harold._

THURNABY HOÄLMS.

But godamoighty a moost taäke meä an’ taäke ma now
Wi’ aäf the cows to cauve an’ Thurnaby hoälms to plow!

_Northern Farmer, Old Style._

THURNABY WAÄSTE.

I weänt saäy men be loiars, thaw summun said it in ’aäste:
But ’e reäds wonn sarmin a weeäk, an’ I ’a stubb’d Thurnaby waäste.

_Northern Farmer, Old Style._

THURSBY THURN.

I could fettle and clump owd booöts and shoes wi’ the best on ’em
all,
As fer as fro’ Thursby thurn hup to Harmsby and Hutterby Hall.

_Northern Cobbler._

TIB.

A country wife.

_Queen Mary._

TIGER.

A fierce quadruped of the feline kind, native of southern Asia and East Indies.

_Palace of Art_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Defence of Lucknow_;
_Demeter and Persephone_;
_Akbar’s Dream_;
_Making of Man_;
_Harold_.

TIGER-CAT.

= A wild-cat.

_The Princess._

TIGER-LILY.

= A species of lily with spotted flowers.

_A Spirit Haunts, etc._

TIGRESS.

= The female of the tiger.

_The Princess_;
_Queen Mary_.

TIGRIS.

A river in Asia, which rises in the mountains of Kurdistan, and flows into the Persian gulf. On its banks are the ruins of Nineveh.

_Recollections of the Arabian Nights._

TIMOUR-MAMMON.

And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children’s bones,

_Timour_ represents the spirit of avarice (_see_ =Timur=), and _Mammon_ is the Syrian god of wealth.

_Maud._

TIMUR.

Timur built his ghastly tower of eighty thousand human skulls,

Refers to Timurbeg, the celebrated Tartar conqueror. He was a typical Asiatic despot, and inspiring a lust for conquest built up a mighty empire. Whilst engaged in an expedition in India, Bagdad revolted, and hastening back he gave the city up to pillage and put to death 80,000 persons. Resolved to make the conquest of China he set out at the head of a large army, but died on the march (1336-1405).

_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After._

TINTAGIL.

A strong castle on the coast of Cornwall. It stands upon the summit of a headland and is reached by a steep path through a rugged valley. In Domesday Book it was entered as Dunchine, or Chain Castle. It was at the foot of the rock upon which the castle stands that Merlin found a naked babe upon the sands:

For there was no man knew from whence he came;
But after tempest, when the long wave broke
All down the thundering shores of Bude and Bos,
Then came a day as still as heaven, and then
They found a naked child upon the sands
Of dark Tintagil by the Cornish sea;
And that was Arthur; and they foster’d him
Till he by miracle was approven King:

Close by is an immense cavern locally known as Merlin’s cave.

_Coming of Arthur_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_Last Tournament_;
_Guinevere_.

TIRRA LIRRA.

‘Tirra lirra,’ by the river
Sang Sir Lancelot.

An imitation of a musical sound as of the note of a lark.

The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,
With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay,

Shakespeare: _Winter’s Tale, Act vi. Scene iii._

_Lady of Shalott._

TITANIA.

Queen of the Fairies.

_The Foresters._

TITIAN.

An Italian painter (1477-1576).

_Romney’s Remorse._

TITIANIC FLORA.

_See_ =Flora=.

TITMOUSE.

A small bird of the genus _Parus_.

_Maud._

TITYRUS.

Poet of the happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers;

A shepherd; one of the characters in Virgil.

_To Virgil._

TOFT HALL.

in Somerset; the residence of Philip Edgar, afterwards known as Mr. Harold.

_Promise of May._

TOM.

Name of men and cats.

_Spinster’s Sweet-Arts._

TOMMY.

Name of a boy.

_Northern Cobbler._

TOMMY.

Name of lovers and cats.

_Spinster’s Sweet-Arts._

TOMOHRIT.

Tomohrit, Athos, all things fair,
With such a pencil, such a pen,
You shadow forth to distant men,
I read and felt that I was there:

A mountain in Albania.

_To E. L._

TOMYRIS.

Queen of the Massagetæ. After her husband’s death she marched against Cyrus (_q.v._), cut his army to pieces and killed him on the spot. She then ordered the head of the fallen king to be cut off, and thrown into a vessel full of human blood, remarking as she did so ‘There, drink thy fill.’

And great bronze valves, emboss’d with Tomyris
And what she did to Cyrus after fight,

_The Princess._

TONUP.

= Turnip.

_Village Wife_;
_Owd Roä_;
_Church-warden and the Curate_.

TORRE.

Brother of Elaine and son of sir Bernard, baron of Astolat.

_Lancelot and Elaine._

TOSTIG.

Earl of Northumbria, son of earl Godwin (_q.v._). Was for some years an exile at the court of Baldwin of Flanders. Upon the death of Edward the Confessor he ravaged the south and east coasts, but being driven away by Edwin and Morcar went to Malcolm, king of Scotland, where he stayed for some time. Having invited Harold Hardrada (_q.v._), king of Norway, to assist him in conquering England, he met the Norway king off Northumbria and they sailed up the Humber and defeated Edwin and Morcar at Fulford Bridge, but was in turn defeated by Harold at the battle of Stamford-bridge, both Tostig and Hardrada being among the slain.

_Morcar._ May all invaders perish like Hardrada!
All traitors fail like Tostig!

_Harold._

TOULOUSE.

I speak after my fancies, for I am a Troubadour, you know, and won
the violet at Toulouse;

A city in the south of France. Henry II having laid claim to the earldom of Toulouse, Becket accompanied the English army and fought as a knight in armour, riding at the head of 700 troops equipped at his own expense.

_Becket._

TOURNAMENT OF THE DEAD INNOCENCE.

But when the morning of a tournament,
By these in earnest those in mockery call’d
The Tournament of the Dead Innocence,

In the early days--the time of Gareth and Geraint--the ‘Tournament of the Dead Innocent’ could have meant but one thing--the memory of the dead innocent babe; but now there is another suggestion in the title, for the purity of the ladies and the knights has faded: it is their innocence that is dead.

This Tournament is the last, and it is a failure. As the gale makes havoc with the emblem of the kings after the Quest of the Grail is ended, so here the ‘useful trouble of the rain’ mars the pageant, and makes it ‘draggled at the skirt.’ And the rules of tournament are not enforced. Lancelot presides as arbiter, but he too is dreaming of dead innocence, and takes so languid an interest that the laws of chivalry are broken before him with impunity.--Littledale: _Essays_.

_Last Tournament._

TOWSER.

Name of a dog.

_Promise of May._

TRACY (Sir William de).

_See_ =De Tracy (Sir William)=.

TRAFALGAR.

at Trafalgar yet once more
We taught him: late he learned humility
Perforce, like those whom Gideon school’d with briers.

Has reference to the battle of Trafalgar.

_Buonaparte._

TRATH TREROIT.

And down the waste sand-shores of Trath Treroit,
Where many a heathen fell:

The scene of king Arthur’s tenth victory over the Saxons. It is identified with a stream near the Solway Firth.

_Lancelot and Elaine._

TRAVELLER’S-JOY.

The _Clematis Vitalba_, a climbing plant with white flowers.

_Aylmer’s Field._

TREE-FERN.

A fern with a tree-like woody stem.

_To Ulysses._

TRIE (Sir Engelram de).

_See_ =Engelram de Erie=.

TRINACRIAN ENNA.

Tho’ dead in its Trinacrian Enna
Blossom again on a colder isle.

_Trinacrian_ = Sicilian. _Enna_ (_q.v._) was a city in Sicily.

_To Professor Jebb._

TRINOBANT.

Hear Icenian, Catieuchlanian, hear Coritanian, Trinobant!

The inhabitants of Trinobantium, an ancient British tribe who inhabited the present counties of Middlesex and Essex.

_Boädicea._

TRISTRAM.

Son of sir Meliodas, king of Liones, and a Knight of the Round Table; married Isolt, daughter of Howell, king of Brittany, but the marriage was an unhappy one, on account of his attachment to Isolt his aunt, the wife of king Mark (_q.v._) of Cornwall. This Isolt was the daughter of king Anguish of Ireland, and Tristram escorted her to England as bride for his uncle Mark, and on the morning of the marriage Isolt and Tristram drank a love-potion which kindled in their hearts a passion which compelled them to love each other as long as they both lived. Tristram was slain by Mark while he was dallying with his aunt.

He spoke, he turn’d, then, flinging round her neck,
Claspt it, and cried ‘Thine Order, O my Queen!’
But, while he bow’d to kiss the jewell’d throat,
Out of the dark, just as the lips had touch’d,
Behind him rose a shadow and a shriek--
‘Mark’s way,’ said Mark, and clove him thro’ the brain.

Isolt, seeing her lover dead, flung herself upon his corpse and died also. The two were buried in the one grave by order of king Mark, who planted over it a rose and vine which became so interwoven that it was impossible to separate them.

_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Last Tournament_;
_Guinevere_.

TROAD.

Name of the region round about Troy.

_Death of Œnone._

TROAS.

A country in Phrygia in Asia Minor of which Troy was the capital.

_Œnone._

TROUBADOUR.

A class of French poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century.

_Becket._

TROUT.

A fresh-water fish of the salmon kind.

_Miller’s Daughter_;
_Walking to the Mail_;
_The Brook_;
_Church-warden and the Curate_;
_Promise of May_.

TROY.

A city of Troas, celebrated as the scene of the legend immortalized by the _Iliad_ of Homer of the abduction of Helen of Sparta by Paris (_q.v._), which led to the Trojan war. It was built by the gods Neptune and Apollo for Laomedon, father of Tithonus, the stones of which are said to have been placed in their positions to the sound of Apollo’s lute.

O Caves
That house the cold crown’d snake! O mountain brooks,
I am the daughter of a River-God,
Hear me, for I will speak, and build up all
My sorrow with my song, as yonder walls
Rose slowly to a music slowly breathed,
A cloud that gather’d shape:

_Œnone_;
_Lotos-Eaters_;
_On a Mourner_;
_Ulysses_;
_Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse_;
_Death of Œnone_.

TSERNOGORA.

Great Tsernogora! never since thine own
Black ridges drew the cloud and brake the storm
Has breathed a race of mightier mountaineers.

The Slavonic name for Montenegro.

_Montenegro._

TUCK (Friar).

_See_ =Friar Tuck=.

TULIP.

A bulbous plant, with beautiful bell-shaped flowers of the genus _Tulipa_.

_Gardener’s Daughter_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_.

TUNIS.

_Queen Mary._

TURBÌA.

What Roman strength Turbìa show’d
In ruin, by the mountain road;
How like a gem, beneath, the city
Of little Monaco, basking, glow’d.

A village near Monaco.

_The Daisy._

TURKISH ISLAM.

warriors beating back the swarm
Of Turkish Islam for five hundred years,

_Montenegro._

TURTLE.

A gallinaceous bird of the genus _Columba_.

_Progress of Spring._

TUSCAN POETS.

O bliss, when all in circle drawn
About him, heart and ear were fed
To hear him, as he lay and read
The Tuscan poets on the lawn;

_Tuscan_ = the literary dialect of Italy: _Poets_ = Dante, Petrarch, etc.

_In Memoriam._

TYNE (river).

_The Foresters._

TYROL.

A crownland of Austria. It lies between Bavaria and Italy, and is noted for the beauty of its scenery.

_The Princess._

ULAMA.

but our Ulama,
Who ‘sitting on green sofas contemplate
The torment of the damn’d’ already,

A body of learned men among the Mohammedans.

_Akbar’s Dream._

ULFIUS.

King Arthur’s chamberlain, and a knight of the Round Table. He accompanied Uther when he entered the castle of Tintagel as the duke of Tintagel to have access to the duke’s wife, Ygerne, the mother of king Arthur. He afterwards assisted king Arthur in the great battle of the kings, and was one of the three knights sent by Arthur to king Leodogran to ask for the hand of his daughter Guinevere.

_Coming of Arthur._

ULRIC.

A leprous Crusader dwelling according to the custom of the Church and the laws of God in a hut on a solitary moor. His wife refused to leave him, saying she would live and die with him.

The leprosy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was supposed to be a legacy of the Crusades.

_Happy._

ULYSSES.

Ulysses, much experienced man,
Whose eyes have known this globe of ours,
Her tribes of men, and trees, and flowers,
From Corrientes to Japan,

= W. G. Palgrave, author of a book of that name. Palgrave was a great traveller, like the Greek Ulysses.

_To Ulysses._

UNICORN.

A fabulous animal mentioned by ancient authors, with one horn on the forehead and a body like that of a horse. The Unicorn is mentioned in the Old Testament.

Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? _Job xxxix.
10._

_Holy Grail._

URANIA.

In Greek mythology the Muse of Astronomy, represented as holding a staff with which she points to a globe.

_In Memoriam._

URANIAN.

This I seal’d:
The seal was Cupid bent above a scroll,
And o’er his head Uranian Venus hung,
And raised the blinding bandage from his eyes:

= Heavenly love.

_The Princess._

URIEN.

A king of north Wales. Husband of Morgan le Fay and father of sir Gawain.

_Coming of Arthur._

USK.

A river of Monmouthshire.

_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Geraint and Enid_;
_Balin and Balan_;
_Pelleas and Ettarre_.

UTHER.

Pendragon of the Britons; married Igerna or Ygerne, widow of Gorloïs; father of king Arthur. He succeeded his brother Aurelius (_q.v._), king of the Britons, and defeated the Saxons under Vortigern and Hengist. He then overcame Gorloïs, duke of Cornwall, and married his widow Igerna. Uther commanded Merlin to make the Round Table and gave it to king Leodogran who gave it to king Arthur as a wedding gift. Uther was poisoned by the Saxons and buried at Stonehenge near his brother.

_Palace of Art_;
_Coming of Arthur_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Geraint and Enid_.

VALERY.

_See_ =St. Valery=.

VALHALLA.

_See_ =Walhalla=.

VALKYRIAN.

But great is song
Used to great ends: ourself have often tried
Valkyrian hymns, or into rhythm have dash’d
The passion of the prophetess;

In Scandinavian mythology the warrior nymphs who chose the slain in battle for transportation to Walhalla (_q.v._) and who handed to the warriors their drinking-horns at their daily feast with Odin.

_The Princess._

VAN DIEMEN.

And show you slips of all that grows
From England to Van Diemen.

= the island of Tasmania.

_Amphion._

VASHTI.

Wife of king Ahasuerus of Babylon, who was divorced, for refusing to obey the king’s command. _Esther i._

_The Princess._

VAUNTCOURIER.

A word meaning ‘Forerunner.’

_Lover’s Tale._

VAVASOUR (MISS).

A schoolmistress.

_Promise of May._

VENICE.

A city and seaport of Italy and capital of the province of Venice.

_The Ring_;
_Queen Mary_.

VENUS.

In Roman mythology the goddess of love, the queen of laughter, and the mistress of the graces and of pleasures, daughter of Jupiter and Dione, and mother of Cupid. In Greek mythology she is identified with Aphroditè (_q.v._). She is represented as presiding over flower-gardens and vines, and is worshipped by gardeners, vine-growers and florists. She had a temple built in her honour in the Forum by Cæsar in 46 +B.C.+ and in +A.D.+ 135 Hadrian erected a double temple in her honour the ruins of which may still be seen. When Paris (_q.v._), the shepherd-prince of Troy, was appointed arbiter to judge which of the three goddesses (Juno, Pallas Athene, and Venus) was the most beautiful, and which should be awarded the golden apple, the prize of beauty, Venus, on appearing before him promised him as a bribe the most beautiful woman in Greece as his wife.

Idalian Aphroditè beautiful,
Fresh as the foam, new-bathed in Paphian wells,
With rosy slender fingers backward drew
From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair
Ambrosial, golden round her lucid throat
And shoulder; from the violets her light foot
Shone rosy-white, and o’er her rounded form
Between the shadows of the vine-bunches
Floated the glowing sunlights, as she moved

* * * * *

She with a subtle smile in her mild eyes,
The herald of her triumph drawing nigh
Half-whisper’d in his ear, ‘I promise thee
The fairest and most loving wife in Greece,’
She spoke and laugh’d: I shut my sight for fear:
But when I look’d, Paris had raised his hand
And I beheld great Herè’s angry eyes,
As she withdrew into the golden cloud,
And I was left alone within the bower;
And from that time to this I am alone,
And I shall be alone until I die.

Paris handed the apple to Venus.

_Lucretius_;
_The Princess_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_;
_The Cup_.

VERAGUA.

my lord,
I swear to you I heard his voice between
The thunders in the black Veragua nights,

A region in the western part of the Isthmus of Panama. It was named by Columbus, who discovered it in 1502, and who attempted to found a settlement there, but was driven off by the Indians.

_Columbus._

VERULAM.

The title of the barony conferred on Bacon by Elizabeth in 1618.

_Palace of Art_;
_The Princess_.

VERULAM.

The Roman name for the city of St. Albans. It was identical with the fortress of Cassivellaunus destroyed by Cæsar in 54 +B.C.+ and it was captured and burnt by Boädicea (_q.v._) in 61 +A.D.+

_Boädicea._

VESELAY.

A French town.

_Becket._

VICISTI GALILÆE.

Eve after eve that haggard anchorite
Would haunt the desolated fane, and there
Gaze at the ruin, often mutter low
‘Vicisti Galilæe’; louder again,
Spurning a shatter’d fragment of the God,
‘Vicisti Galilæe!’

Has reference to Julian, called the ‘Apostate,’ emperor of Rome for eighteen months from 361-363 +A.D.+ On becoming emperor he renounced Christianity and endeavoured to restore paganism, and is said to have persecuted the Christians although there is no evidence to justify it. He was the author of several works, one of which was in opposition to Christianity. In an expedition against the Persians he was wounded, and as he fell from his horse in a fainting condition, he exclaimed: ‘Vicisti Galilæe’ (‘Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!’) He was carried to his tent and died the same evening, June 26, 363.

_St. Telemachus._

VICTORIA.

Victoria,--since your Royal grace
To one of less desert allows
This laurel greener from the brows
Of him that utter’d nothing base;

Queen Victoria.

_To the Queen._

VIENNA.

My blood an even tenor kept,
Till on mine ear this message falls,
That in Vienna’s fatal walls
God’s finger touch’d him, and he slept.

Capital of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy, situated on the river Danube.

_In Memoriam._

VILLA GARCIA.

One of the men who tried to induce Cranmer to sign and declare the queen’s right to the throne, confess his faith before all hearers, and retract the Eucharistic doctrine. He also helped with Soto to take Cranmer to St. Mary’s Church, and with the choir helped to ‘strike’ up the Nunc Dimittus.

_Queen Mary._

VINE.

A climbing plant which produces the grape, of the genus _Vitis_.

_Queen Mary_;
_Harold_;
_The Cup_;
_Ode to Memory_;
_Mariana in the South_;
_Œnone_;
_Lotos-Eaters_;
_Dream of Fair Women_;
_Audley Court_;
_Amphion_;
_Aylmer’s Field_;
_The Princess_;
_Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington_;
_Death of Œnone_;
_The Daisy_;
_The Islet_;
_The Window_;
_Romney’s Remorse_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_;
_Demeter and Persephone_;
_To E. Fitzgerald_;
_Tiresias_.

VINE-AN’-THE-HOP.

An inn sign.

_Promise of May._

VIOLET.

One of the staff of the College for women founded by the princess Ida.

_The Princess._

VIOLET.

An herbaceous plant and flower of the genus _Viola_, of many species.

_Adeline_;
_Œnone_;
_May Queen_;
_Dream of Fair Women_;
_Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue_;
_Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere_;
_Aylmer’s Field_;
_The Princess_;
_To Rev. F. D. Maurice_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Maud_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Progress of Spring_;
_Becket_;
_The Falcon_;
_Promise of May_.

VIPER.

A European serpent whose bite is venomous.

_The Princess_;
_Merlin and Vivien_.

VIRGIL.

= The Latin poet.

_To Virgil_;
_Poets and their Bibliographies_;
_Queen Mary_.

VITUS (Saint).

A Roman saint martyred under Diocletian, and the patron of dances.

_The Foresters._

VIVIAN (Sir Walter).

Sir Walter Vivian--a gentleman supposed to be living at Maidstone Park, when in 1844 a festival of the Mechanics’ Institution was being held there, sir Walter himself being patron of the Institution. His house was adorned with articles collected from all quarters of the globe and all eras of history.

_The Princess._

VIVIAN-PLACE.

The home of sir Walter Vivian.

_The Princess._

VIVIEN.

A wanton at the court of king Arthur, who hated all the knights. She was an orphan, her father having been killed in battle, and her mother had died upon his corpse on the battlefield. She went to queen Guinevere to ask protection and the queen took her as one of her maids, where she tried without success to seduce the blameless king. With Merlin (_q.v._) she had better success, for under pretence of great devotion, she followed him to the wild woods of Broceliande in Brittany.

A storm was coming, but the winds were still,
And in the wild woods of Broceliande,
Before an oak, so hollow, huge and old
It look’d a tower of ivied masonwork
At Merlin’s feet the wily Vivien lay.

Being pestered with her he confided to her the secret of his magic power, whereupon she confined him in a hollow tower from which there was no escape.

And then she follow’d Merlin all the way,
Ev’n to the wild woods of Broceliande.
For Merlin once had told her of a charm,
The which if any wrought on any one
With woven paces and with waving arms,
The man so wrought on ever seem’d to lie
Closed in the four walls of a hollow tower,
From which was no escape for evermore;

_Balin and Balan_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_Guinevere_.

VOLTIGEUR.

Name of a horse.

_Promise of May._

VULCAN.

In Italian mythology the god of fire, and of the art of forging, identified with the Greek Hephæstus. A temple was built in his honour at Rome, and he is supposed to have had a forge under mount Etna where he manufactured thunderbolts.

_The Princess._

VULTURE.

A rapacious bird of prey of the genus _Vultur_, feeding largely on carrion.

_You might have won_;
_The Princess_.

WALES.

_Golden Year_;
_Coming of Arthur_;
_Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham_;
_Harold_.

WALHALLA.

In Scandinavian mythology the Hall of the Slain; the name of the residence for brave warriors slain in battle where they were conveyed by the warrior nymphs, the Valkyries (_q.v._).

_Harold._

WALNUT.

A tree and its fruit of the genus _Jugians_.

_Miller’s Daughter_;
_The Cup_.

WALTER.

Married Miriam Erne, cousin of Muriel Erne. Before they were married Walter gave Miriam a ring supposed to be possessed with magic power.

then I bad the man engrave
‘From Walter’ on the ring, and send it.

_The Ring._

WALTER.

The lover of Olivia, and to whom the oak-tree supposed to be gifted with speech gave an account of the doings of Olivia during his absence. In return for the information given he vowed that Olivia should wear on her wedding day a wreath of alternate leaf and acorn ball.

_Talking Oak._

WALTER. WALTER LEA.

Son of sir Richard Lea, and brother of Maid Marian.

_The Foresters._

WALTER. WALTER VIVIAN.

_See_ =Vivian=.

WALTER MAP.

A twelfth century writer, probably born in Herefordshire. Was an intimate friend of archbishop Becket. After studying at the University of Paris, entered the service of Henry II, and acted as chaplain to the king during the wars brought about by the rebellion of Henry’s sons. Represented Henry at the court of Louis VII and attended the council at the Lateran at Rome in 1179.

For some time was parson at Westbury, where he came in conflict with the monks of the neighbouring Cistercian monastery. Canon of St. Paul’s and Chancellor of Lincoln, and in 1197 was appointed archdeacon of Oxford. He was the author of _Latin Satirical Poems_ against the priesthood.

_Becket._

WALTHAM.

the Holy Rood
That bow’d to me at Waltham--

Waltham Holy Cross was founded by Tovi, standard-bearer to king Canute, and finished by king Harold in 1060. Gasquet in his _Greater Abbeys of England_ says:

The first foundation at Waltham, and indeed the adoption of the name
of ‘Holy Cross’ as the dedication, was brought about, according to
legend, in a mysterious manner. In the reign of king Canute a pious
smith, so runs the story, received a supernatural intimation that he
would find a crucifix buried on the hill at Montacute, in Somerset.
The parish priest was consulted and thought the matter should be
examined into at once. At the head of a procession, praying and
singing the Litanies, this priest accompanied the smith to the spot
which had been pointed out to him in his dream and which, when
on the ground, he fully recognized. Here, after much digging, the
searchers came upon a wonderful crucifix carved in black marble.
The discovery naturally made a great impression at the time, and
indeed, the fact suggested the war cry of the English at the battle
of Senlac: ‘Holy Cross, out, out!’ The lord of the manor of Montacute
at the time of the discovery was named Tovi, a well-known soldier who
was standard-bearer to king Canute. By his direction the crucifix
was placed on an ornamented car, to which were harnessed twelve red
oxen and twelve white cows, and the ultimate destination was left to
their instincts, guided, of course, by Providence. The spot at which
they ultimately stopped, and which was thus pointed out by fate as
the place where the cross was to remain, was Waltham.... Here Tovi,
with the king’s help, established two priests to act as guardians of
the crucifix thus so strangely found at Montacute and providentially
brought to Waltham. From the first this cross was believed to possess
miraculous powers, and amongst other favours thought to have been
obtained at its shrine was the cure of Harold, son of earl Godwin,
from the palsy.

On his way to the battle of Senlac Harold came to Waltham to pay a visit to the shrine and offer up his devotions at the great Cross. His body, found on the field of battle, was by William ordered to be buried there, but at the request of his mother was transferred to Waltham and buried in the Abbey.

_Harold._

WALWORTH.

_Queen Mary._

WANSTEAD.

A town in Essex.

_Queen Mary._

WARD.

Farewell, whose living like I shall not find,
Whose Faith and Work were bells of full accord,
My friend, the most unworldly of mankind,
Most generous of all Ultramontanes, Ward,

William George Ward, to whom the poem is dedicated. A zealous advocate of the Tractarian movement, he carried it out in principle by joining in 1845 the Roman Catholic Church (1812-1882).

_In Memoriam, William George Ward._

WAR-HAWK.

_Battle of Brunanburh._

WASP.

A hymenopterous insect of the genus _Vespa_ whose sting is very painful.

_The Princess._

WATERFLAG.

Reeds, with long leaves, that wave like flags in the wind.

_Morte d’Arthur_;
_Passing of Arthur_.

WATERFOWL.

A bird that frequents the water.

_Merlin and Vivien._

WATER-GATE.

Storm at the Water-gate! storm at the Bailey-gate! storm,

_Defence of Lucknow._

WATER-GNAT.

An insect whose early stages are passed in ponds, ditches, and shallow pools.

_Leonine Elegiacs._

WATER-LILY.

A plant of the genus _Nymphæa_, with large floating leaves and beautiful flowers.

_Lady of Shalott_;
_The Princess_.

WATERLOO.

= Battle of Waterloo.

_Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue_;
_Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington_;
_Sisters (Evelyn and Edith)_.

WAYFARING-TREE.

A European shrub having large ovate leaves and small white flowers.

_Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham._

WEASEL.

A small quadruped of the genus _Mustela_ which feeds on birds and mice.

_Aylmer’s Field_;
_The Princess_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Promise of May_.

WEEDY SEAS.

= the Sargasso Sea, where masses of seaweed accumulate.

_Columbus._

WELLS (Dean of).

_Queen Mary._

WESSEX.

The kingdom of the West Saxons.

_Harold._

WESTMINSTER (City of).

_Harold_;
_Becket_.

WESTMINSTER (Bishop of).

_See_ =Thirlby=.

WEST-SAXON-LAND.

Also the brethren,
King and Atheling,
Each in his glory,
Went to his own in his own West-Saxon-land,
Glad of the war.

_Battle of Brunanburh._

WHALE.

A mammal of the order _Cetacea_, hunted chiefly for its oil and whalebone.

_Harold._

WHARTON (Lady Anne).

_See_ =Anne, Anne Wharton=.

WHITE (Sir Thomas).

_See_ =Thomas White=.

WHITE HORSE.

and as now
Men weed the white horse on the Berkshire hills
To keep him bright and clean as heretofore,

_See_ =Berkshire=.

_Geraint and Enid._

WHITE ROSE.

Name of a horse.

_The Brook._

WHITETHORN.

= the hawthorn.

_Queen Mary._

WICKENTREE.

= the mountain-ash or rowan-tree.

_The Foresters._

WICLIF.

John Wiclif, the ‘morning star of the Reformation.’ In 1361 appointed Master of Balliol College and four years afterwards was made Warden of Canterbury hall by archbishop Islip, but deprived by Islip’s successor Stephen Langton at the instigation of the monks, who were angry with him for exposing their corrupt lives. In 1374 he was preferred by the crown to the rectory of Lutterworth, and for openly preaching against the corruption of the Roman Church pope Gregory XI issued several bulls charging him with heresy and he was summoned to appear at St. Paul’s by the bishop of London, where he made such an able defence of himself that the council broke up without coming to a decision. The pope, however, issued a series of bulls to the bishops bidding them to arrest and imprison Wiclif, with a consequence that he was ordered to appear before a synod in the archbishop’s palace at Lambeth, which synod was prohibited by an order from the king’s mother. At this time the Roman Church was shaken by the election of a second pope, and Wiclif, taking advantage, struck at the constitution of the Roman Church and denounced in vigorous language its corruptness. He translated the Bible; organized a body of poor priests who went through the country preaching and spreading his doctrines. In 1380 he declared against the doctrine of transubstantiation, but his theses were condemned by a convocation at Oxford, who forbade him to teach them in the university. Two years later archbishop Courtenay condemned his opinions and his followers were arrested and compelled to recant. Wiclif withdrew to Lutterworth, where in spite of a stroke of paralysis he continued his literary activity. He died on December 31, 1384, and in 1428 his bones were dug up and burned, and his ashes thrown into the river Swift, close by the town where he had laboured so long (1320-1384).

_Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham._

WILD-SWAN.

A large bird, measuring five feet in length and eight across its expanded wings. These birds fly in a wedgelike figure, following the course set them by their ‘leader.’

The leader wild-swan in among the stars
Would clang it,

_Poet’s Song_;
_The Princess_.

WILDWEED-FLOWER.

_Day-Dream._

WILD WILL.

Name of a horse.

_The Brook._

WILLER.

= the willow.

_Promise of May._

WILLIAM.

With farmer Allan at the farm abode
William and Dora.

Son of farmer Allan.

_Dora._

WILLIAM. WILLIAM HOWARD.

Eldest son of Thomas Howard, second duke of Norfolk; governor of Calais 1552-53; and lord high admiral 1554-73; was created a peer for his defence of London against sir Thomas Wyatt in 1554.

_Queen Mary._

WILLIAM THE FIRST. WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

King of England, son of Robert I, duke of Normandy, whom he succeeded in 1035. In 1051 he visited the English Court, and received from Edward the Confessor a promise that he should succeed him as king, and in 1064, during earl Harold’s visit to the French Court he made him swear to help him to gain the English crown. On the death of Edward the Confessor Harold was proclaimed king, and in September 1066 William invaded England, and in the following month of the same year defeated Harold at the battle of Senlac, marched to London and was crowned in Westminster Abbey on December 25, 1066. He ruled with great tyranny, in consequence of which several insurrections took place, which were not quelled until William had devastated various parts of the country with fire and sword. He instituted the curfew and made a survey of all the lands in the kingdom known as the Domesday Book. In 1070 an insurrection broke out in the Isle of Ely under the leadership of Hereward the Wake. Eight years later he built the Tower of London, and having entered upon a war with Philip of France, he attacked and burned in 1087 the city of Mantes. As he rode through the burning town his horse stumbled, and he received an injury from which he died on September 9 of the same year. He was buried at Caen.

_Queen Mary_;
_Becket_;
_Harold_.

WILLIAM OF ORANGE.

A member of the noble house of Nassau, who inherited from his cousin the principality of Orange. Owing to the persecution of Protestants in the Netherlands took up arms in defence of his country’s freedom against the tyranny of Philip of Spain, and did not rest until he had freed it from the Spanish yoke. In 1580 Philip issued a ban against him, and set a price of 25,000 gold crowns upon his head, and on July 10 he was assassinated in his house at Delft by Balthazar Gerard (1533-1584).

_Queen Mary._

WILLIAMS (Lord, of Thame).

Whereat Lord Williams gave a sudden cry:
‘Make short! make short!’ and so they lit the wood.

Son of sir John Williams. On the death of Edward VI he became a supporter of Mary’s cause, proclaimed her at Oxford, and raised some six thousand men in Northamptonshire to support her cause. He had the custody of the princess Elizabeth at Woodstock, until she was transferred to the keeping of sir Henry Bedingfield. As Sheriff of Oxfordshire he conveyed Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley to Oxford to await their trial, and was present at their execution. On account of the kindness he had shown to Elizabeth during the time she was in his custody, he was on her accession appointed to attend her to London in 1558, and soon afterwards was appointed Lord President of Wales. He died in 1559, at Ludlow Castle, and was buried in the parish church at Thame.

_Queen Mary._

WILLIAM THE SILENT.

_See_ =William of Orange=.

WILLOW.

A tree or shrub of the genus _Salix_, including many species.

_Dying Swan_;
_Lady of Shalott_;
_Mariana in the South_;
_Walking to the Mail_;
_Amphion_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Merlin and the Gleam_.

WILLOW-HERB.

A perennial herb with narrow willowlike leaves and rose-purple flowers.

_Promise of May._

WILLOWS (James).

_See_ =James Willows=.

WILLOW-WEED.

A plant which grows on marshy or moist soils.

_The Brook._

WILLY.

An old grandmother of religious frame of mind, as her memory travels back, felt that the spirits of her dead sons, of whom Willy was one, were about her in the kitchen, and lost all sense of time and loss, in looking forward towards her own end with restful expectation. Willy was her eldest born, and the flower of her flock, and the news of his death had been brought to her by a little girl named Annie, to whom in reply, she said:--

I ought to have gone before him: I wonder he went so young,
I cannot cry for him, Annie; I have not long to stay;

She could not weep for Willy, but looked forward to a happy reunion with her husband and all her children, as she said:

I, too, shall go in a minute.

_Grandmother._

WILLY.

Son of the speaker in the poem. The woman when on her deathbed related to another woman, the story of her son’s crime. She blamed others for his sin:

But he lived with a lot of wild mates, and they never would let him
be good;

He robbed the mail as an act of daring, and was hanged in chains. His mother stole his bones from the prison-yard and buried them in the night by the churchyard wall. She contrasts the actions of the lawyer with that of the Saviour.

For the lawyer is born but to murder--the Saviour lives but to
bless.

_Rizpah._

WILSON.

A schoolmaster.

_Promise of May._

WINCHESTER (Bishop of).

_Queen Mary._

WINCHESTER (Henry of).

_See_ =Henry of Winchester=.

WIND-HOVER.

= the Kestrel, a bird of the hawk kind, so called from its hovering in the wind over one spot without fluttering its wings.

_Aylmer’s Field._

WINDSOR.

_Queen Mary._

WINNIE.

Minnie and Winnie
Slept in a shell.
Sleep, little ladies!
And they slept well.

_Minnie and Winnie._

WITAN.

= Witenagemot: the National Council of England in Anglo-Saxon times.

_Harold._

WITCH-ELM.

The drooping broad-leaved elm of Scotland.

_In Memoriam._

WODEN.

_See_ =Odin=.

WOLF.

An animal of the genus _Canis_, allied to the dog.

_Aylmer’s Field_;
_The Princess_;
_Boädicea_;
_Maud_;
_Coming of Arthur_;
_Geraint and Enid_;
_Balin and Balan_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_Pelleas and Ettarre_;
_Northern Cobbler_;
_Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham_;
_Battle of Brunanburh_;
_Forlorn_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Harold_;
_Becket_;
_The Cup_;
_The Foresters_.

WOLSELEY.

Field-Marshal viscount Wolseley, eldest son of Major Garnet Joseph Wolseley. He served in the Burmese War, the Crimea, the Indian Mutiny--being present at the relief of Lucknow--in the Chinese war, and afterwards in Canada, and in 1873 was appointed in command of the punitive expedition to the Gold Coast against the Ashantis. On the outbreak of the rebellion in Egypt in 1882 he was appointed in command of the expedition, and after fighting several engagements with the enemy, advanced to Tel-el-Kebir, where on September 13, 1882, he completely routed the rebels under Arâbi Pasha (_q.v._).

You saw the league-long rampart-fire
Flare from Tel-el-Kebir
Thro’ darkness, and the foe was driven,
And Wolseley overthrew
Arâbi, and the stars in heaven
Paled, and the glory grew.

Ten years later he proceeded again to Egypt in command of an expedition for the relief of general Gordon at Khartoum, but arrived too late to effect its object. He died on March 25, 1913 (1833-1913).

_Prologue to General Hamley._

WOODBINE.

= a climbing plant; the honeysuckle.

_Promise of May_;
_A Dirge_;
_My life is full_;
_Talking Oak_;
_Day-Dream_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Spinster’s Sweet-Arts_;
_Promise of May_.

WOODCOCK.

A bird belonging to the genera _Scolopax_ and _Philohela_, allied to the snipe.

_Balin and Balan._

WOOD-DEVIL.

_Balin and Balan._

WOOD-DOVE.

= the wild dove.

_Balin and Balan._

WOOD-LOUSE.

= a terrestrial isopod of the family _Oniscidæ_.

_The Window._

WOODPECKER.

A bird of the order _Picariæ_, with a strong chisel-like bill, with which it is able to drill holes in the bark and wood of trees.

_Kate_;
_The Princess_;
_Progress of Spring_.

WOODSTOCK.

Was a royal residence when the Domesday Survey was made. It was the scene of Henry II’s courtship of Rosamond de Clifford. Queen Elizabeth was a prisoner here from May 1554 to May 1555, and after her accession to the throne visited it in 1556 and again in 1575. After the battle of Blenheim the manor of Woodstock was bestowed in perpetuity on John duke of Marlborough.

_Queen Mary._

WORKS AND DAYS.

Landscape-lover, lord of language more than he that sang the Works
and Days,

The name of a poem by Hesiod, the Greek poet, the earliest didactic poem known to us in Greek.

_To Virgil._

WORMS.

A city and capital of the province of Rhine-Hesse, on the river Rhine.

_Queen Mary._

WREN.

A species of small bird belonging to the genus _Troglodytes_.

_Golden Year_;
_The Window_;
_Marriage of Geraint_.

WRIGGLESBY BECK.

_Northern Farmer, New Style._

WRIT, HOLY.

_See_ =Holy Writ=.

WULFNOTH.

Son of Godwin, and brother of king Harold.

_Harold._

WYATT (Sir Thomas).

_See_ =Thomas Wyatt=.

WYCLIFFE (John).

_See_ =Wiclif=.

WYE.

A river in south Wales.

_In Memoriam._

WYVERN.

An heraldic device in shape of a dragon with expanded wings.

_Aylmer’s Field_;
_Holy Grail_.

XANTHUS.

A river of Troas.

_Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse._

YABBOK BROOK.

_Clear-headed Friend._

YAFFINGALE.

= the green woodpecker, noted for its loud laughing note.

And hear the garnet-headed yaffingale
Mock them:

_Last Tournament._

YEW. YEW-TREE.

An evergreen tree of the genus _Taxus_, allied to the pine.

_Love and Death_;
_Two Voices_;
_Amphion_;
_The Letters_;
_Enoch Arden_;
_The Princess_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Dedicatory Poem to the Princess Alice_;
_The Flight_;
_Walking to the Mail_;
_Holy Grail_;
_Promise of May_;
_The Foresters_.

YGERNE.

Wife of Gorloïs, lord of Tintagel Castle. She was a beautiful woman, and at a festival of the Round Table Uther fell in love with her, and upon Ulfin revealing it to her she told her husband Gorloïs, who locked her up in the impregnable fortress of Tintagel, and gathering together an army, fought against Uther, but was defeated and slain. Ygerne then became the wife of Uther and subsequently the mother of king Arthur.

_Coming of Arthur._

YNIOL.

An earl of decayed fortune and the father of Enid, wife of sir Geraint. He was ousted from his earldom by his nephew Edyrn, who attempted to win his daughter, but was unsuccessful. Edyrn, however, being overthrown in a tournament by sir Geraint, the earldom was restored to him.

_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Geraint and Enid_.

YORK.

And York’s white rose as red as Lancaster’s

= Wars of the Roses between the houses of York and Lancaster.

_Aylmer’s Field._

YORK (Archbishop).

_Becket._

YORK (Archbishoprick).

_Becket._

YORK (City of).

_Queen Mary_;
_Harold_;
_The Foresters_.

YORK (County of).

_Edwin Morris_;
_Aylmer’s Field_.

ZERUBBABEL.

The Christian name of a man called Sanders (_q.v._), who lived in Cornhill at the Sign of the Talbot.

_Queen Mary._

ZEUS.

In Greek mythology the lord of Heaven, identified with the Italian Jupiter (_q.v._).

_Achilles over the Trench._

ZOROASTRIAN.

A follower of Zoroaster, the prophet of the ancient Persians.

_Akbar’s Dream._

ZUINGLIUS.

The ghosts of Luther and Zuinglius fade
Into the deathless hell which is their doom
Before my star!

Has reference to Zuingli, the Swiss reformer.

_Queen Mary._

ZURICH.

_Cranmer._ To Strasburg, Antwerp, Frankfort, Zurich, Worms,
Geneva, Basle--our Bishops from their sees
Or fled, they say, or flying--

A town in Switzerland, and capital of the Canton of Zurich.

_Queen Mary._

LIST OF AUTHORITIES AND OF WORKS CONSULTED AND QUOTED

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+Alfred Lord Tennyson.+ A Memoir, by his son.

+Allen, Grant.+ Anglo-Saxon Britain.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The.

Arthurian Chronicles, represented by Wace and Layamon.

Bible, The.

+Brewer+, Rev. Dr. E. C. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.

+Brewer+, Rev. Dr. E. C. Reader’s Handbook.

+Burns, Robert.+ Poetical Works.

+Byron, Lord.+ Poetical Works.

+Campbell, Thomas.+ Pleasures of Hope.

+Cervantes, Miguel de.+ Don Quixote.

+Chambers, R.+ Editor. Book of Days.

Chambers’s Encyclopædia.

+Conybeare, Edward.+ Roman Britain.

+Cowper, William.+ Poetical Works.

+Darwin, Erasmus.+ Botanic Garden.

Dictionary of National Biography.

+Drayton, Michael.+ Polyolbion.

+Dryden, John.+ Poetical Works.

Encyclopædia Britannica.

+Freeman+, Dr. E. A. Norman Conquest.

+Froissart+, Sir +John+. Chronicles of England, France, Spain, etc.

+Froude, James Anthony.+ History of England.

+Fuller+, Rev. +Thomas+. Worthies of England.

+Gardiner+, Dr. +Samuel R.+ History of England.

+Geoffrey of Monmouth.+

+Guerber, H. A.+ Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages.

+Guest, Lady Charlotte.+ The Mabinogion.

Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia.

Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates.

+Homer.+ The Iliad and Odyssey.

+Hunt+, Rev. +William+. Norman Britain.

+Irving, Washington.+ Life of Columbus.

+Kirtlan+, Rev. E. J. B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

+Lempriere+, Dr. J. Classical Dictionary.

+Liddell+, Dr. +Henry G.+ History of Rome.

+Littledale+, Prof. H. Essays on Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King.

Macmillan’s Modern Languages and Literature Series.

+Malory+, Sir +Thomas+. Morte d’Arthur.

+Milton, John.+ Poetical Works.

+Nennius.+ Six Chronicles.

Nuttall Encyclopædia, The. Edited by Rev. James Wood.

+Pepys, Samuel.+ Diary of.

+Percy, Thomas.+ Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

+Pope, Alexander.+ Poetical Works.

+Rawnsley+, Rev. Canon. Memories of the Tennysons.

+Rhys+, Dr. J. Celtic Britain.

+Ritson, Joseph.+ Robin Hood.

+Rollin+, Prof. +Charles+. Ancient History.

+Seyffert+, Dr. +Oskar+. Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Literature and Art.

+Shakespeare, William.+ Works.

+Sloane+, Sir +Hans+. Manuscript.

+Spenser, Edmund.+ Poetical Works.

+Tappan, Eva M.+ Heroes of the Middle Ages.

+Turner, Sharon.+ History of the Anglo-Saxons.

+Wägner+, Dr. W. Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages. Translated by W. M. Macdowall.

Webster’s International Dictionary.

+Wordsworth, William.+ Poetical Works.

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Transcriber’s Notes

For printer’s errors in punctuation, spelling, etc., only the changes listed below were made.

_Italics_, =Bold-face=, +Small Caps+, and +ALL SMALL CAPS+ were converted as so.

After the list of changes made, there is a list of changes that were explicitly not made. They were retained to preserve what the author wrote, for it is unclear if the errors are the printer’s or the author’s. Only egregious errors were mentioned as retentions, the trivial were not.

The Synopses and Dictionary entries were originally printed in two columns per page.

The brief Table of Contents on page viii was added by the transcriber.

One footnote was reindexed.

Quote marks in quoted material, whether verse or prose, were left as printed.

Entries similar to the entry for “ACTON (Roger).” on page 41, which includes the reference to “_See_ =Roger Acton=.”, were silently standardized to add a line break between the entry and the reference.

Most instances of non-standardized spacing were standardized.

In the dictionary, the reference that often ends each entry was silently moved to a new line--most were already on a new line--for standardization. See “ACANTHUS-WREATH.” on page 39 for an example.

Those references were also rewrapped.

On page 17, the title “FORM, THE, FORM, THE” is from the first line of the mentioned sonnet, namely “The form, the form alone is eloquent!”.

The placement of entries in the dictionary were kept as printed. One such entry that is out of order is “ANGUISANT.” on page 52.

Changes

On page 7 in the entry for “CHURCH-WARDEN AND THE CURATE, THE.”, a beginning single quotation mark was corrected to a beginning double quotation mark immediately before “God Omighty” to match the double quotation mark at the end of the section.

On page 12 in the entry for “DREAMER, THE.”, “end’s” was corrected to “ends” in the phrase “‘all’s well that ends well,”.

On page 16 in the entry for “FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL.”, the opening double quotation mark immediately before “if I could understand” was replaced by an opening single quotation mark for consistency.

On page 23 in the entry for “LOVER’S TALE, THE.” the missing period in the entry heading was added.

On page 27 in the entry for “ON TRANSLATIONS OF HOMER.”, the spacing in the printing for “Hexameters” was odd in the print. Likewise, the printing of a period was misaligned. Other instances of misalignment issues were silently corrected.

On page 27 in the entries for “OWL, THE.”, “PALACE OF ART, THE.”, “PLAY, THE.”, “POET, THE.”, and “POET’S MIND, THE.”, the missing period in the entry heading was added.

On page 28 in the entry for “POET’S SONG, THE.”, the missing period in the entry heading was added.

On the same page in the entry for “POLITICS.”, the paragraph that begins with “_i.e._, politicians, exhorting them” was re-formatted from a hanging indent to a normal indent.

On the same page in the entry for “PROMISE OF MAY, THE.”, the missing period in the entry heading was added.

On page 29 in the entry for “REVENGE, THE.”, the missing period in the entry heading was added.

On the same page in the entry for “RING, THE.”, the missing period in the entry heading was added.

On page 31 in the entry for “SILENT VOICES, THE.”, the missing period in the entry heading was added.

On page 32 in the entry for “SPINSTER’S SWEET-ARTS, THE.”, the missing period in the entry heading was added.

On page 36 in the entry for “WAN SCULPTOR, WEEPEST THOU TO TAKE THE CAST.”, the missing period in the entry heading was added.

On page 41 in the entry for “ADDER.”, the missing period in the entry heading was added.

On page 45 in the entry for “ALDER.”, commas in the reference were replaced by semi-colons for standardization.

On page 46 in the entry for “ALFRED.” in the reference “Alexdrovna” was corrected to “Alexandrovna” to match the poem’s name.

On page 52 in the entry for “ANGLIAE.”, a missing period was added to the end of “Harold”.

On page 54 in the entry for “ANTWERP.”, a missing comma was added after “Antwerp”.

On page 62 in the entry for “ARTHUR.”, the name “Spencer” (the author of Faerie Queene) was corrected to “Spenser” to match other instances of the name in the dictionary.

On page 64 in the entry for “ASPHODEL.”, commas in the list of poetic references were replaced by semi-colons to match the style elsewhere.

On page 68 in the entry for “AYLMER.”, “and sir Alymer’s ambition was” was corrected to “and sir Aylmer’s ambition was”.

On page 70 in the entry for “BAILEY-GATE.”, a missing hyphen was added to “Bailey-gate!” in the quotation.

On page 71 in the entry for “BALAN.”, a missing period was added to the end of “(_q.v._)”.

On page 72 in the entry for “BALLIOL.”, the missing period in the entry heading was added.

On page 77 in the entry for “BERKSHIRE.”, the section that begins with “‘Between the heats will be run for by Poneys,” was made a new paragraph.

On the same page in the same entry, “foling” was corrected to “following” in the phrase “That prizes be awarded for the following games and sports”.

On the same page in the same entry, a period was added in “Backsword Play.”.

On page 78 in the entry for “BLAISE (Saint).”, a missing period was added to end the sentence “preserved in the existing wall.”.

On page 80 in the entry for “BOANERGES.”, “loud-!ung’d” was corrected to “loud-lung’d”.

On page 81 in the entry for “BOOR-TREE.”, the missing period in the entry heading was added.

On the same page in the entry for “BORS.”, “sh” was corrected to “she” in “vanished with the Sancgreal as she came”.

On the same page in the same entry, a missing period was added to the end of the attribution “Malory: _Morte d’Arthur, Book XI. chap. iv._”.