Chapter V: Part 5

Balin’s sword was put in a marble stone standing upright as great as
a millstone, and the stone hoved always above the water, and did many
years, and so by adventure it swam down the stream to the city of
Camelot that is in English Winchester.

Malory: _Morte d’Arthur, Book II. chap. xix._

It is now identified with a village called Camel in Somersetshire and the town of Camelford in Cornwall. In the former place remains of the entrenchments of an ancient town are still to be seen. The village still preserves the traditions of Arthur, ‘the bridge over the river Camel is called Arthur’s Bridge,’ and in the neighbourhood is a spring known as ‘Arthur’s Well.’ At Camelford there is a grave locally known as ‘King Arthur’s grave,’ and in the vicinity is Slaughter Hill, the reputed scene of the ‘last weird battle in the west,’ where the traitor Modred was slain, and where Arthur received his mortal wound. In _Gareth and Lynette_ it is described as:

a city of shadowy palaces
And stately, rich in emblem and the work
Of ancient kings who did their days in stone:
Which Merlin’s hand, the Mage at Arthur’s court,
Knowing all arts, had touch’d, and everywhere
At Arthur’s ordinance, tipt with lessening peak
And pinnacle, and had made it spire to heaven.

And in the centre of the city was the great hall which Merlin had built for Arthur

O brother, had you known our mighty hall
Which Merlin built for Arthur long ago!
For all the sacred mount of Camelot,
And all the dim rich city, roof by roof,
Tower after tower, spire beyond spire,

But in the description of the departure of the three knights in search of the Holy Grail, Percivale says:

O brother, had you known our Camelot,
Built by old kings, age after age, so old
The king himself had fears that it would fall,
So strange, and rich, and dim; for where the roofs
Totter’d toward each other in the sky
Met foreheads all along the streets of those
Who watch’d us pass;

And in _Pelleas and Ettarre_, as Pelleas is riding away from the castle of Ettarre

he saw
High up in heaven the hall that Merlin built,
Blackening against the dead-green stripes of even,
‘Black nest of rats,’ he groan’d, ‘ye build too high.’

_Lady of Shalott_;
_Morte d’Arthur_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Balin and Balan_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Holy Grail_;
_Pelleas and Ettarre_;
_Last Tournament_;
_Guinevere_;
_Passing of Arthur_;
_Merlin and the Gleam_.

CAMILLA.

_See_ =Julian=.

CAMMA.

Wife of Sinnatus (_q.v._), afterwards priestess in the temple of Artemis.

_The Cup._

CAMPANILI.

A genus of plants, bearing bell-shaped flowers.

_The Daisy._

CÁMULODÚNE.

The Roman name for the city of Colchester. Claudius established a Roman settlement here to assist in the subjugation of Caractacus, a warlike king who lived in South Wales. During the absence of the Governor, the Iceni, under Boädicea (_q.v._) captured and burnt the colony and massacred the inhabitants, some 70,000 Romans being said to have perished, but Suetonius Paulinus on his return from Wales recovered possession of the place.

_Boädicea._

CANA.

Perhaps, like him of Cana in Holy Writ,
Our Arthur kept his best until the last;

Refers to the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee where Christ was present with His disciples and performed His miracle of turning the water into wine. _John ii. 1-11._

_Holy Grail._

CANADA.

_A Welcome to Her Highness Marie Alexandrovna,
Duchess of Edinburgh_;
_Hands all Round_.

CANNING.

Stratford Canning, first viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, the famous ambassador. Was secretary to the Envoy to Denmark in 1807; Constantinople in 1808, and two years later was left in charge of the British Embassy at Constantinople; plenipotentiary to Switzerland 1813-20; envoy to the United States of America 1820-24; to St. Petersburg 1824, and again to Constantinople in 1825. M.P. for Salisbury 1828, and for Stockbridge, 1830; appointed Envoy to St. Petersburg 1833, but the Czar refused to receive him; in 1835 declined the governorship of Canada; M.P. for Kings Lynn 1835-41, and in 1842 appointed ambassador at Constantinople. Envoy to Switzerland 1847, and in the following year returned to Constantinople. In 1852 he was created viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, and six years later resigned his ambassadorship. He died in 1880. A statue to his memory was erected in Westminster Abbey in 1884.

_Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue_;
_Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe_.

CANOPUS.

A bright star in the rudder of Argo, a constellation of the southern hemisphere; so called from the old Egyptian city Canopus, or from an Egyptian god of that name.

‘We drank the Libyan Sun to sleep, and lit
Lamps which out-burn’d Canopus.’

_Dream of Fair Women._

CANTERBURY.

_Queen Mary_;
_Harold_;
_Becket_.

CANTERBURY-BELLS.

= Campanula, a plant bearing bell-shaped flowers.

_City Child._

CANTERBURY MINSTER.

_Becket._

CAPITOL.

The temple of ancient Rome, where the senate met. It was situated on the Mons Capitolinus, the smallest but the most famous of the seven hills on which Rome is built.

_Freedom._

CAPRERA.

A small island in the Buccinari group of the coast of Sardinia. It was the home of general Garibaldi, where he died, and his burial-place.

_To Ulysses._

CARADOS.

A king subdued by king Arthur, fighting on behalf of Leodogran, king of Cameliard.

_Coming of Arthur._

CARAFFA.

John Peter Caraffa, elected pope of Rome under the title of Paul IV in 1555, at the age of eighty.

_Queen Mary._

CARAVEL.

the frailer caravel,
With what was mine, came happily to the shore.
_There_ was a glimmering of God’s hand.

The small, open ship of the Portuguese was called a caravel. When Bovadilla (_q.v._) started on his homeward voyage to Spain, a hurricane burst over his fleet. Many of the ships were entirely lost, and others returned to San Domingo in a shattered condition. The only ship of the fleet which pursued her voyage and ultimately reached her port of destination was the frail caravel freighted with the property of Columbus.

_Columbus._

CARBONEK.

A castle, according to legend built as the resting place of the Holy Grail in the time of Alain, grandson of Joseph of Arimathæa. It was the residence of king Pelles, whose daughter Elaine was mother of sir Galahad.

and looking up,
Behold, the enchanted towers of Carbonek,
A castle like a rock upon a rock,

_Holy Grail._

CAREW (Peter).

_See_ =Peter Carew=.

CARIAN ARTEMISIA.

Daughter of Lygdamis, and queen of Halicarnassus. She built in memory of her husband king Mausolus of Caria, the famous Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, counted by the ancients as one of the seven wonders of the world. With five ships she joined Xerxes in his invasion of Greece, and fought at Salamis, 480 +B.C.+, where she displayed such signal courage and energy, that Xerxes exclaimed: ‘My men have become women, and my women men.’

and she
The foundress of the Babylonian wall
The Carian Artemisia strong in war.

_The Princess._

CARLOS.

Don Carlos, son of Philip II of Spain.

_Queen Mary._

CAROLINE.

There’s Margaret and Mary, there’s Kate and Caroline:
But none so fair as little Alice in all the land they say,

One of the four little girl friends of Alice, ‘Queen of the May.’

_May Queen._

CARP.

A fresh-water fish.

_Marriage of Geraint._

CARRIER-PIGEON.

A domestic pigeon used to convey messages from a distant point to its home.

_Harold._

CARYATIDS.

In Greek architecture draped female figures supporting an entablature in place of a column.

_The Princess._

CASCINÈ.

At Florence too what golden hours,
In those long galleries, were ours;
What drives about the fresh Cascinè,
Or walks in Boboli’s ducal bowers.

A park of Florence about two miles long, bounded by the rivers Arno and Mugnone. It affords refreshing walks to the traveller, and is a fashionable rendezvous, particularly for driving.

_The Daisy._

CASSANDRA.

A Trojan princess; the beautiful daughter of Priam and Hecuba, whom Apollo in return for her love endowed with the gift of prophecy. She predicted to the Trojans the siege and destruction of their city, and was shut up in prison as a madwoman. On the fall of Troy she became the slave of Agamemnon, and was murdered along with her master by his wife Clytemnestra. She is one of the characters in Shakespeare’s _Troilus and Cressida_.

_Œnone_;
_Romney’s Remorse_.

CASSIA.

A genus of plants of many species, most of which have purgative qualities.

_Love and Death._

CASSIOPEIA.

Queen of Ethiopia, mother of Andromeda. For boasting that her daughter’s beauty surpassed the beauty of the sea-nymphs, Neptune sent a sea-serpent, which ravaged the kingdom. At death she was made a constellation, consisting of thirteen stars.

Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove
To set her beauty’s praise above
The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended.

Milton: _Il Penseroso, 19-21._

_The Princess._

CÁSSIVËLAÚN.

Cássivëlaún, was a king of Britain at the time when Julius Cæsar invaded the island. Mwrchan, a Gallic chief, in league with Cæsar seized and carried away to Gaul, Flur, Cássivëlaún’s betrothed, but Cássivëlaún invading Gaul at the head of 60,000 troops, gained a complete victory and rescued his bride.

And sweeter than the bride of Cassivelaun,
Flur, for whose love the Roman Cæsar first
Invaded Britain,

On Cæsar’s second invasion of the island, Cássivëlaún again vanquished him; but the Romans being reinforced by Androgeus, he was defeated and agreed to pay tribute to the amount of 3,000 pounds of silver annually. Several years after he died and was buried at York.

_Boädicea_;
_Marriage of Geraint_.

CASTALIES.

_See_ =Castaly=.

_The Princess._

CASTALY.

A fountain at the foot of mount Parnassus, sacred to the Muses; called after a nymph who drowned herself in it to escape Apollo. Its waters inspired those who drank thereof with the gift of poetry.

_Becket._

CASTILE--CASTILLE.

A district of Spain, divided by the mountains of Castile into old and new Castile. Anciently inhabited by Celtiberian tribes, but united to the crown of Spain in 1469 by the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella.

_Columbus_;
_Queen Mary_.

CASTLE PERILOUS.

The home of Lady Lyonors. There she was held captive by four knights. Lynette (_q.v._) her sister went to king Arthur and asked for a knight to fight to rescue her, and the task was given to sir Gareth (_q.v._), who overcame the knights and liberated the lady. Malory in his _Morte d’Arthur_ says that Gareth married the lady and his brother Gaheris married Lynette, but Tennyson says that Gareth married Lynette, but makes no mention of lady Lyonors.

_Gareth and Lynette._

CASTRO.

Chaplain to king Philip of Spain.

Thou knowest I bad my chaplain, Castro preach
Against these burnings.

_Queen Mary._

CAT.

A domestic animal.

_The Falcon_;
_The Owl_;
_The Goose_;
_Walking to the Mail_;
_The Princess_;
_Maud_;
_Promise of May_;
_The Foresters_;
_Holy Grail_;
_Northern Cobbler_;
_Tomorrow_;
_Spinster’s Sweet-Arts_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_;
_Owd Roä_;
_Church-warden and the Curate_.

CATALONIAN MINORITE.

For curbing crimes that scandalised the Cross
By him, the Catalonian Minorite,
Rome’s Vicar in our Indies?

_Catalonian_ = Catalonia, a Spanish province. _Minorite_ = a monk. Has reference to Friar Bernardo Buil, a Benedictine monk who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage to America, 1493. He had been chosen by pope Alexander VI to be his apostolic vicar in the West Indies.

_Columbus._

CATERPILLAR.

The coloured grub of the lepidopterous insects, or of butterflies and moths.

_Guinevere._

CATHARINE.

of Aragon (b. 1485), first queen of Henry VIII, youngest daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. Married first to Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII, in 1501, but was left a widow, and in 1509 by a papal dispensation was married to her brother-in-law, afterwards Henry VIII. In 1533, shortly after Henry’s cleavage with Rome, Cranmer declared the marriage null and void; but the pope pronounced it valid, 1534. Died 1535, and buried in Peterborough Abbey.

_Queen Mary._

CATHAY.

The mediæval name for Tartary, the capital of which was Albracca.

the ship
From Ceylon, Inde, or far Cathay, unloads
For him the fragrant produce of each trip;

Byron: _Don Juan, Canto XII. Stanza ix._

_Locksley Hall._

CATHERINE.

Daughter of a woman who chides her because she is contemplating a marriage, of which her mother says she is unworthy.

Murder would not veil your sin,
Marriage will not hide it,
Earth and Hell will brand your name,
Wretch you must abide it....

She exhorts her to confess to her lover.

Up, get up, and tell him all,
Tell him you were lying!

_Forlorn._

CATIEUCHLANIAN.

An ancient British tribe whose kingdom embraced the present counties of Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, and Middlesex.

_Boädicea._

CATO.

M. Porcius Cato, Roman orator and statesman. He was known as ‘the Censor,’ to which office he was appointed in 184 +B.C.+ He was an opponent of Hellenic fashions, and during the second Punic war (215 +B.C.+), when Rome was in danger of being captured by Hannibal, a law--called the Oppian Law--was passed to restrain the extravagant dress of the Roman ladies, but some years after the women rose in revolt, and were successful in getting the law repealed in spite of the opposition of Cato (234-149, +B.C.+).

Titanic shapes, they cramm’d
The forum, and half-crush’d among the rest
A dwarf-like Cato cower’d.

_The Princess._

CATULLUS.

Considered to be the greatest of Roman lyric poets. Some of his poems are inspired by the love for a beautiful maiden named Lesbia, a passion that eventually proved his downfall. The poem referred to in _Edwin Morris_, 79, is by Catullus.

_Hendecasyllabics_;
_Frater Ave Atque Vale_;
_Poets and their Bibliographies_.

CAUCASIAN.

but every legend fair
Which the supreme Caucasian mind
Carved out of Nature for itself,

A phrase by which the race of people who inhabited the Caucasian mountains was known.

_Palace of Art._

CAUCASIAN.

He never yet had set his daughter forth
Here in the woman-markets of the west,
Where our Caucasians let themselves be sold.

Alludes to the sale of Caucasian girls for Turkish harems.

_Aylmer’s Field._

CAUCASUS.

A mountain range, 900 miles in length, with an average height of 12,000 feet, extending from the Black Sea to the Caspian.

_The Poet_;
_A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna,
Duchess of Edinburgh_.

CAUF.

= Calf.

_Spinster’s Sweet-Arts._

CAVALL.

King Arthur’s best hound; name of a mountain in Wales, where tradition says exists a stone with a footprint of the dog impressed in it.

And chiefly for the baying of Cavall,
King Arthur’s hound of deepest mouth,

_Marriage of Geraint._

CECIL.

William, baron Burghley, queen Elizabeth’s chief minister.

_Queen Mary._

CECILY.

A Roman virgin of rank, who embraced Christianity in the reign of Antoninus, and who is said to have been visited by angels. She is the Latin saint of music, and the reputed inventor of the organ. Suffered martyrdom about 200 +B.C.+

Or in a clear-wall’d city on the sea,
Near gilded organ-pipes, her hair
Wound with white roses, slept St. Cecily;
An angel look’d at her.

Dryden, Pope, Addison and other English poets have contributed Odes, but the best-known is Dryden’s (1697).

Orpheus could lead the savage race,
And trees unrooted left their place,
Sequacious of the lyre;
But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher:
When to her organ vocal breath was given,
An angel heard, and straight appeared
Mistaking earth for heaven.

Dryden: _A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 48-54._

_Palace of Art._

CEDAR. CEDAR-TREE.

The name of several evergreen trees.

_Recollections of the Arabian Nights_;
_Gardener’s Daughter_;
_The Princess_;
_Milton_;
_Maud_;
_Queen Mary_.

CELANDINE.

A plant of the poppy family with yellow leaves.

_Progress of Spring._

CELIDON.

A forest, and the scene of Arthur’s seventh victory over the Saxons. One authority considers it in Cornwall, another in Lincolnshire, while another places it on the banks of the Carron in Upper-Tweeddale.

then the war
That thunder’d in and out the gloomy skirts
Of Celidon the forest;

_Lancelot and Elaine._

CELTIC DEMOS.

_See_ =Demos=.

CHAMIAN ORACLE.

There in a silent shade of laurel brown
Apart the Chamian Oracle divine
Shelter’d his unapproach’d mysteries:

The temple of Jupiter Ammon. Ammon was an Egyptian god, represented in the shape of a ram, his chief temple being in the desert of Libyan, twelve days’ journey from Memphis. This temple possessed a famous oracle, said to have had connexion with the oracle at Dodona, two black doves flying away from Thebes in Egypt, one to the temple of Jupiter Ammon and the other to Dodona, by which the inhabitants were informed of the divine mission; consequently the Greeks identified Ammon with their god Zeus and the Romans with their Jupiter.

_Alexander._

CHARING CROSS.

A part of London, the junction of Whitehall and the Strand. It derived its name from the stone cross which was erected as a memorial to Eleanor, queen of Edward I.

_Queen Mary._

CHARIOTEER.

and the Charioteer
And starry Gemini hang like glorious crowns
Over Orion’s grave low down in the west,

The constellation Auriga, situated midway between the Polar Star and Orion.

_Maud_;
_Achilles over the Trench_.

CHARLES (the First).

King of England, third son of James I and Anne, daughter of the king of Denmark. Created duke of York and Cornwall on the accession of his father, and in 1616, four years after the death of his elder brother Henry, created Prince of Wales. Succeeding his father in 1625 he married Henrietta Maria, youngest daughter of Henry IV of France. Became involved in controversy with Parliament, particularly regarding the revenues rendered necessary by his extravagant policy, and for eleven years through his ministers governed without one. Civil war eventually broke out which ended in the disastrous battle of Naseby in 1645. In the following year he surrendered himself to the Scots at Newark, who handed him over to the English. On January 20, 1649, he was brought to trial, and on the 27th of the same month was condemned, and beheaded at Whitehall three days later (1600-1649).

_Third of February._

CHARLES (the Second).

King of England, second son of Charles I. Having assisted his father until after the battle of Naseby he proceeded with his mother to the Hague, where he received the news of his father’s fate. He was proclaimed king at Edinburgh on February 3, 1649, and again on July 15, 1650, after his arrival in that country, and on January 1 in the following year was crowned at Scone, in Perthshire. In August of the same year he invaded England at the head of 10,000 troops, but was defeated by Cromwell at Worcester. Escaping, he hid in the branches of a large oak in Boscobel wood to avoid his pursuers, who actually came under the tree where he was. Wandering from place to place in disguise he eventually reached Shoreham, escaped to France, and hence to Brussels, where he remained until the death of Cromwell in 1658. Two years later he was recalled to the throne, and arriving in England was received with acclamation. In 1665 he declared war against Holland and a Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway and destroyed several ships. The same year a great plague swept away a large number of the inhabitants of London, and in the following year a large portion of the city was destroyed by fire. In 1674 he made peace with Holland, and his niece, princess Mary, married William of Orange in 1677 (1630-1685).

_Talking Oak._

CHARLES (the Fifth).

Emperor of Germany, son of Philip of Austria, became in 1516 by right of birth, ruler of Spain, the Netherlands, Sicily, and Naples; and on the death of his grandfather added Austria to his dominions. His chief ambition was the suppression of the Reformation and the succession of his son Philip to the imperial crown, but failing in both, abdicated in favour of his son, and retired to the monastery of St. Yuste, in Estremadura, where he died, having, notwithstanding his retirement, continued to direct the policy of his son (1500-1558).

_Queen Mary._

CHARLES’S WAIN.

The constellation of Ursa Major, a wagon without a wagoner, an old English name for the constellation of the Great Bear.

_May Queen._

CHARLEY.

A dog--a King Charles spaniel--belonging to Maud.

Look, a horse at the door,
And little King Charley snarling.

_Maud._

CHARLIE.

A son of an old woman, who outlived all her children. _See_ =Harry=.

_Grandmother._

CHARLIE.

Only son of an old book-loving village squire. Unlike his father he did a little hunting and fishing. His father’s estate was entailed, and being in debt he asked his son to help him out of the difficulty, but he refused, suggesting that the books should be sold. Charlie however did not live to enjoy the possession of the estates, for while out riding one evening his horse threw him, and he was killed.

_Village Wife._

CHARLOCK.

A plant of the mustard family, with yellow leaves, that grows as a weed in cornfields.

_Gareth and Lynette._

CHARTIST PIKE.

I once was near him, when his bailiff brought
A Chartist pike.

A weapon used by the revolutionary party known as the Chartists. During the agitation by the working-classes for greater political power in 1838 in a document called the ‘People’s Charter’ there were fears of a secret rising on account of the petition being refused by the House of Commons.

_Walking to the Mail._

CHATELET.

A poet-squire in the suite of Marshal Damville, who was executed for intrigue with Mary, queen of Scots.

_Margaret._

CHAUCER (Dan).

_See_ =Dan Chaucer=.

CHESTNUT.

= a tree.

_Miller’s Daughter_;
_Lord of Burleigh_;
_Progress of Spring_.

CHICHESTER (Bishop of).

Hilary; elected bishop of Chichester 1147, and archbishop of York the same year, but the latter appointment was not confirmed by the pope. He urged Becket to accept the ‘ancient customs’ included in the embassy to the pope against Becket; and granted absolution to those bishops whom Becket had excommunicated (d. 1169).

_Becket._

CHIMERA.

In Greek mythology a fire-eating monster, destroyed by Bellerophon, having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. The word signifies any impossible monstrosity.

_The Princess._

CHINA.

till warming with her theme
She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique
And little-footed China, touch’d on Mahomet
With much contempt and came to chivalry:

Refers to the custom prevalent in China of cramping the feet of girls from an early age in tight bandages to keep them small.

_The Princess._

CHRISTCHURCH (Dean of).

our Bishops from their sees
Or fled, they say, or flying--Poinet, Barlow,
Bale, Scory, Coverdale; besides the Deans
Of Christchurch, Durham, Exeter, and Wells--

_Queen Mary._

CHRISTIAN.

More like the picture
Of Christian in my ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ here
Bow’d to the dust beneath the burthen of sin.

The hero of Bunyan’s _Pilgrim’s Progress_.

_Promise of May._

CHRISTOPHER COLON.

_See_ =Columbus=.

CICALA.

At eve a dry cicala sung,
There came a sound as of the sea;

An insect with wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the side of the abdomen.

_Mariana in the South._

CLARA VERE de VERE.

Daughter of an earl, nobly born, but of a haughty and proud disposition. The poet assured her that hers was not a character to be admired, and that for all her wealth and name he would not forsake a simple maiden with a truer heart. In the poem appear the well-known lines:

Howe’er it be, it seems to me,
’Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.

_Lady Clara Vere de Vere._

CLARE, LADY.

The supposed child of an earl, who is afterwards told by her old nurse that she is not the lady Clare, as the old earl’s daughter died almost directly after birth. The nurse tells her that she is her mother. The supposed lady Clare hastens to tell the truth to her lover, lord Ronald, the real heir to her lands. This takes place on the eve of her marriage. Lord Ronald greatly appreciates her honesty and frankness.

If you are not the heiress born
And I,’ said he, ‘the lawful heir,
We two will wed to-morrow morn,
And you shall still be Lady Clare.’

_Lady Clare._

CLARENCE.

A lady-in-waiting to queen Mary.

_Queen Mary._

CLARIANCE.

King of Northumberland, subdued by king Arthur fighting on behalf of Leodogran, king of Cameliard.

_Coming of Arthur._

CLARIBEL.

Claribel lived in a beautiful bower, where everything was at peace.

Where Claribel low-lieth
The breezes pause and die,
Letting the rose-leaves fall:

_Claribel._

CLAUDIAS.

One of the petty kings overcome by king Arthur fighting on behalf of Leodogran, king of Cameliard.

_Coming of Arthur._

CLELIA.

A Roman virgin who swam the river Tiber to escape from Porsina, king of Clusium, whose hostage she was. Being sent back by the Romans, Porsina not only set her at liberty but allowed her to take with her a part of the hostages.

_The Princess._

CLEMATIS.

A genus of climbing plants.

_Golden Year_;
_City Child_;
_The Window_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_.

CLEOPATRA-LIKE.

Cleopatra-like as of old
To entangle me when we met,

= Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, distinguished for her beauty and her charms; first fascinated Cæsar, and after his death Mark Antony (_q.v._). On the fall and suicide of the latter she killed herself to escape being taken to Rome.

_Maud._

CLIFFORD.

_See_ =Rosamund, Rosamund de Clifford=.

CLOVER.

A genus of plants, containing a great number of species.

_A Dirge_;
_City Child_.

COBHAM.

Sir John Oldcastle, lord Cobham; lollard leader; first author and first martyr among the English nobility. In the reign of Henry IV he commanded an English army in France, where he compelled the duke of Orleans to raise the siege of Paris. Becoming a convert to Wycliffe’s doctrines, he was in the reign of Henry V tried by archbishop Arundel and other bishops; declared to be a heretic, and sent to the tower, but escaping, summoned all his followers to meet him in St. Giles’ fields. The assemblage being attacked and his followers dispersed, he fled to Wales, and after hiding for four years was captured, conveyed to London, and being condemned was hanged in chains and burnt, December 1416.

_Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham._

COBRA.

A hooded and poisonous snake, a native of the East Indies.

_Akbar’s Dream._

COCK, THE.

O plump head-waiter at The Cock
To which I most resort,

A Tavern, No. 201, Fleet Street, near Temple Bar, and of great antiquity.

Generally he would stay at the Temple or in Lincoln’s Inn Fields;
dining with his friends at The Cock, and other taverns. A perfect
dinner was a beefsteak, a potato, a cut of cheese, a pint of port,
and afterwards a pipe (never a cigar).

* * * * *

‘The plump head-waiter of The Cock,’ by Temple Bar, famous for
chop and porter, was rather offended when told of the poem [_Will
Waterproof_]. ‘Had Mr. Tennyson dined oftener there, he would not
have minded it so much,’ he said.

Edward Fitzgerald quoted in _Life of Tennyson_.

Pepys in his _Diary_ for April 23, 1668, speaks of having been there:

Thence by water to the Temple, and there to the Cock alehouse, and
drank, and ate a lobster, and sang, and mighty merry.

_Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue._

COCKATRICE.

A fabulous monster, resembling a serpent.

_Holy Grail._

COCO.

= the cocoa-nut tree.

_Enoch Arden._

COCO-PALM.

= Cocoa-palm.

_Progress of Spring._

COESNON.

A river forming the boundary between Normandy and Brittany.

_Harold._

COGOLETTO.

A village in the province of Genoa, on the coast.

_The Daisy._

COLE (Henry).

Fellow of the New College, Oxford, 1521-40; submitted to the Reformation, and became prebendary of Salisbury in 1539, but on Mary’s accession joined the Roman Catholic party; was made archdeacon of Ely in 1553, canon of Westminster and provost of Eton; and disputed with Cranmer at Oxford in 1554. He preached at St. Mary’s Church, Oxford, on the occasion of the martyrdom of Cranmer in 1556.

Him perch’d up there? I wish some thunderbolt
Would make this Cole a cinder, pulpit and all.

Dean of St. Paul’s, 1556-9; vicar-general of the archbishop of Canterbury, 1557-8; sent to Ireland to extirpate protestantism 1558.

‘In 1558,’ says Timbs and Gunn’s _Abbey, Castles, etc._, ‘Dr. Henry Cole, dean of St. Paul’s, was entrusted with the commission issued by queen Mary, to institute prosecutions against such as should refuse to observe the ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland. The doctor stopped at Chester on his way, and at the Blue Posts Inn was visited by the Mayor, to whom, in the course of conversation, he communicated the business upon which he was engaged; opening his cloak-bag, he took out a leather box, observing with exultation, “he had that within which would lash the heretics of Ireland.” The hostess accidentally overheard the discourse, and having a brother who was a Protestant, she became alarmed for his safety; and with a surprising quickness of thought, whilst the doctor was complimenting his worship down the stairs, to open the box, take out the commission, and leave instead a pack of cards, with the knave of clubs uppermost. Soon afterwards the dean sailed for Ireland, where he arrived on December 7, 1558. Being introduced to the Lord-Deputy Fitzwalter and the Privy Council, he explained the nature of his embassy, and then presented the box containing, as he thought, the commission; his lordship took it, and having lifted the lid, beheld with considerable surprise the pack of cards, with the knave on the top. The doctor was thunderstruck, and in much confusion affirmed that a commission he certainly had, and that some artful person must have made the exchange. “Then,” said his lordship, “you have nothing to do but return to London and get it renewed; meanwhile we’ll shuffle the cards.” This unwelcome advice the doctor was constrained to follow ... but before he could reach Ireland a second time queen Mary died, and her sanguinary commission became useless. The woman whose dexterity and presence of mind had thus providentially operated, was rewarded by Elizabeth with a pension of forty pounds a year.’

In 1559 he was one of the eight romanist disputants at Westminster Abbey, and for contempt was fined 500 marks and deprived of all his preferments. In the following year he was committed to the Tower, whence he was removed to the Fleet. His subsequent history is obscure.

_Queen Mary._

COLEWORT.

A species of cole, or cabbage.

_Guinevere._

COLLANTINE.

A town on the Anio, built by the people of Alba.

_Lucretius._

COLOSSEUM.

Like some old wreck on some indrawing sea,
Gain’d their huge Colosseum.

The great amphitheatre in Rome standing on the site of Nero’s palace. It was begun by Vespasian 72 +A.D.+, and finished by Titus +A.D.+ 82. It was here the fights of wild beasts and gladiators went on.

_St. Telemachus._

COLT.

A young horse.

_Talking Oak_;
_Enoch Arden_;
_The Brook_;
_The Princess_;
_Coming of Arthur_;
_Romney’s Remorse_.

COLUMBUS.

A celebrated Genoese navigator. His life is of little interest till 1470, when he settled in Lisbon and made voyages to the Madeira and the Azores. Thinking it possible to reach India by sailing westward, he made an appeal to his native city but without result; to the king of Portugal, to Henry VII of England, and to the dukes of Medina Sidonia, and Medina Celi, who advised him to lay his proposals before the Spanish king and queen. After seven years of delay his proposals were accepted by the Spanish monarchs, and on August 3, 1492, his little squadron of three small ships set sail on its perilous voyage, and on October 12 of the same year landed on the island of Guanahani, one of the Bahamas, which he called San Salvador, and thence sailed to Cuba and Hispaniola. On his return to Spain in 1493 he was welcomed with great enthusiasm, and many honours were conferred upon him, that which he prized most of all being the title ‘Admiral of the Ocean.’ He sailed on his second voyage on September 25, 1493, and discovered Porto Rico and Jamaica. Returned in 1496 and set out on his third voyage which resulted in the discovery of Trinidad, and the mainland of South America. His enemies in Spain, however, did him much harm, and a new governor, Francisco Bovadilla (_q.v._), acted with great harshness; and in October 1500 Columbus was placed in irons and sent back to Spain. This treatment caused a wave of indignation to sweep over Spain, and Columbus, on landing, was restored to favour by Ferdinand and Isabella.

Chains for the Admiral of the Ocean! chains
For him who gave a new heaven, a new earth,
As holy John had prophesied of me,
Gave glory and more empire to the kings
Of Spain than all their battles! chains for him
Who push’d his prows into the setting sun
And made West East, and sail’d the Dragon’s mouth,
And came upon the Mountain of the World,
And saw the rivers roll from Paradise!

In 1502 he made his fourth and last voyage and explored the north coast of the gulf of Mexico. He returned in 1504, and worn out in body died two years later at Valladolid, in poverty and want. He was buried at Valladolid, but in 1513 his remains were translated to Seville, and a monument erected to his memory inscribed: ‘To Castile and Leon Columbus has given a new world.’ In 1513 they were taken, with those of his son Diego, and laid in the Cathedral of San Domingo. Two hundred and fifty years later the island was ceded to the French, and they were removed to the cathedral of Havana in Cuba. After the Cuban war the bones were--in 1898--brought from Havana to Spain, kept for a time at Granada, and finally deposited in 1912 in the cathedral of Seville (1435-1506).

_The Daisy_;
_Columbus_.

COMO.

A town on the lake of Como of Italy.

_The Daisy._

CONSTANTINUS.

A king of Scotland, who allied himself with the Danes under Anlaf against Athelstan. The allied kings were defeated at Brunanburh (937 +A.D.+), by Athelstan and his brother Edmund. This victory practically established the unity of England.

_Battle of Brunanburh._

CONVOLVULUS.

A genus of twining plants, called also Bindweed.

_Enoch Arden_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_.

CONY.

= a rabbit.

_Enoch Arden._

COOMBERLAND (Cumberland).

_Promise of May._

COOT.

A short-tailed water-fowl, with a white spot on the forehead.

_The Brook._

COPHETUA.

An imaginary king of Africa. Sitting one day at his palace window he saw a beggar maid pass, and fell in love with her and married her. The story is alluded to in Percy’s _Reliques_, and in Shakespeare’s _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, and _Romeo and Juliet_.

The magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set eye upon the
pernicious and indubitate beggar Zenelophon,

Shakespeare: _Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV. Scene i._

So sweet a face, such angel grace,
In all that land had never been:
Cophetua sware a royal oath:
‘This beggar maid shall be my queen!’

_Beggar Maid._

COPTIC.

Peal after peal, the British battle broke,
Lulling the brine against the Coptic sands.

= Egyptian.

_Buonaparte._

CORINNA.

A Greek poetess, born at Tanagra in Bœotia. She was the most eminent of the Greek lyric poets, but only fragments of her poems remain. At the national games she was said to have obtained a victory over Pindar, the lyric poet of Greece. Her name is the title of one of de Stael’s novels:

At the word, they raised
A tent of satin, elaborately wrought
With fair Corinna’s triumph; here she stood,
Engirt with many a florid maiden-cheek,
The woman-conqueror;

_The Princess._

CORITANIAN.

A British tribe who inhabited the present counties of Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire.

_Boädicea._

CORNELIA.

Wife of Titus Sempronius Gracchus, and mother of the Gracchi. She was held in high esteem by the Romans, who during her lifetime erected a statue in her honour with the inscription: _Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi_.

_The Princess._

CORNWALLIS (Sir Thomas).

Eldest son of sir John Cornwallis. In 1549, he was sent into Norfolk to suppress the rebellion headed by Ket, and was made sheriff of Norfolk in 1553. In the following year he escorted the princess Elizabeth to London; and was one of the commissioners at the trial of sir Thomas Wyatt, the insurrectionary leader. From 1554-7 he was treasurer of Calais, and it is generally considered that he sold the town to the French. In the latter year he was made Comptroller of the Household, but on the accession of Elizabeth was removed from the post, as well as from the privy council, and retired into private life. He died in 1604 (1510-1604).

_Queen Mary._

CORONACH.

An Irish funeral song or lamentation.

_Dying Swan._

CORRIENTES.

A province, Argentine Republic, between the Parana and the Uruguay rivers.

_To Ulysses._

COSSACK.

Cossack and Russian
Reel’d from the sabre-stroke,
Shatter’d and sunder’d.

The Cossacks are a warlike people in south-eastern Russia, forming splendid light cavalry.

_Charge of the Light Brigade._

COURTENAY.

Edward Courtenay, earl of Devonshire. With his parents was in 1538, when only twelve years of age, imprisoned in the Tower until 1547, when he was released by Edward VI. On the accession of Mary he was created earl of Devonshire, and at her coronation carried the Sword of State; and being held in high favour by the queen, was hopeful for her hand in marriage; but on Mary’s marriage with Philip of Spain was urged to propose marriage to the princess Elizabeth. At the end of 1553 a plot was discovered having for its object the placing of Elizabeth on the throne. Sir Thomas Wyatt joined in the conspiracy, but he and his followers were promptly suppressed and Courtenay was sent back to the Tower, and subsequently removed to Fotheringay. In 1555 he was exiled and went to Brussels, and thence to Padua, where he died (1526-1556).

_Queen Mary._

COURT-GALEN.

Our great court-Galen poised his gilt-head cane,

Has reference to a celebrated Greek physician named Claudius Galenus of Pergamos. He went to Rome where he gained great renown in the medical profession, and undertook scientific journeys through Greece and Asia. He was a great writer, being author of some 300 volumes--125 of which were destroyed in a fire--and his writings, which left no branch of medicine untouched, formed for many centuries the chief text-books for physicians and doctors. It was customary for the medical profession to carry a gilt-headed cane in his honour.

_The Princess._

COVENTRY.

A city in Warwickshire. According to legend it obtained its municipal rights from Leofric about 1044, by the ride of Godiva (_q.v._) through the streets of the city.

_Godiva._

COVERDALE (Miles).

Bishop of Exeter, and translator of the _Bible_. The _Great Bible_ or _Cromwell’s Bible_ (1539) was printed under his direction and issued under the auspices of Thomas Lord Cromwell. _Cranmer’s Bible_ (1540), was also edited by Coverdale. Appointed chaplain to Edward VI in 1548 and bishop of Exeter in 1551. Upon the accession of Mary he was deposed from his See and imprisoned, but released upon the intercession of the king of Denmark and retired to Geneva; but returned to England after Elizabeth had ascended the throne, and subsequently appointed to the living of St. Magnus, near London Bridge (1488-1568).

_Queen Mary._

COW.

The female of the bovine animals.

_The Brook_;
_Northern Farmer, Old Style_;
_Village Wife_;
_Promise of May_;
_Spinster’s Sweet-Arts_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_;
_Church-warden and the Curate_;
_Queen Mary_;
_The Foresters_.

COWSLIP.

A species of primrose, having yellow blossoms.

_Adeline_;
_Rosalind_;
_May Queen_;
_Talking Oak_;
_Aylmer’s Field_;
_In the Children’s Hospital_.

CRAB.

An animal of the class _Crustacea_ with the whole body covered by a crust-like shell.

_Harold_;
_The Foresters_;
_Walking to the Mail_.

CRADLEMONT.

A king of North Wales, subdued by king Arthur, fighting on behalf of Leodogran, king of Cameliard.

_Coming of Arthur._

CRAG-CLOISTER.

The monastery of Sumelas. It stands on the side of a rocky glen near Trebizond, 4,000 feet above the level of the sea, and is approached by a zigzag path at the side of the cliff. The foundation is considered to be some 1,500 years old, and in 1360 it was rebuilt by the emperor Alexius Comnenus. The bull of that emperor, which henceforth became its charter, is still preserved in the monastery, which also possesses the firman of Mohammed II, by which he accorded his protection to the monks on becoming ruler of that part of Asia Minor.

_To Ulysses._

CRAKE.

A corn-crake, a bird which frequents grain fields.

_In Memoriam._

CRANE.

A large wading bird, with long legs, neck and bill.

_The Princess_;
_Progress of Spring_.

CRANMER.

Archbishop of Canterbury; born at Aslacton, Nottingham. In 1522 he was appointed vicar of St. Mary’s, Taunton. His opinion of the divorce of Henry VIII with Catherine of Aragon recommended him to that monarch, which opinions he propounded in a treatise. In 1530 he was sent as an embassy to the pope, and two years later to the emperor Charles V, and while in Germany married a niece of the reformer Osiander. In 1533 he was created archbishop of Canterbury, and pronounced Henry’s marriage with Catherine as invalid and that with Anne Boleyn lawful. On the accession of Mary he was committed to the Tower, but subsequently released. A charge of heresy was however brought against him and he was condemned. On the promise of life he was induced to sign his abjuration of the Protestant faith. For having committed this act he was struck with deep remorse, and when brought into St. Mary’s Church, Oxford, to read his recantation in public, instead of complying he denounced the errors of the Romish Church. This greatly enraged his enemies, who, denouncing him as a heretic, dragged him to the stake opposite Balliol College. When the faggots were lighted he put his right hand in the flame and exclaimed ‘This unworthy hand’ (1489-1556).

_Queen Mary._

CRAW.

Woä--theer’s a craw to pluck wi’ tha, Sam:

= crow, to have something to settle with some one.

_Northern Farmer, New Style._

CRETE.

or Candia, an island in the Mediterranean sea.

_On a Mourner._

CRICHTON.

His own--I call’d him Crichton, for he seem’d
All-perfect, finish’d to the finger nail.

James Crichton, surnamed ‘the Admirable Crichton’ a Scottish nobleman. He visited Paris, Rome and other continental universities, and at Venice he challenged all scholars, claiming to be an expert linguist, as well as an expert swordsman. He became tutor to the son of the duke of Mantua. He was killed one night in the street, presumably by a body of masked men, when only twenty-three years of age.

_Edwin Morris._

CRICKET.

An orthopterous insect. The male makes a chirping noise by rubbing his wing-covers against each other.

_Death of the Old Year_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_.

CROCODILE’S TEARS.

= Affected tears.

_A Dirge._

CROCUS.

A bulbous plant with brilliant yellow or purple flowers.

_Œnone_;
_Palace of Art_;
_To Rev. F. D. Maurice_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_;
_Prefatory Sonnet to the ‘Nineteenth Century’_;
_Progress of Spring_.

CROW.

A large black bird.

_Audley Court_;
_Locksley Hall_;
_Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_The Ring_;
_Queen Mary_;
_The Foresters_.

CROWN.

An inn sign.

and she brew’d the best ale in all Glo’ster, that is to say in her
time when she had the ‘Crown.’

_Becket._

CUCKOO.

A bird whose name is supposed to be called from its note. It builds no nest of its own, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds to be hatched by them.

_Gardener’s Daughter_;
_The Princess_;
_The Window_;
_Coming of Arthur_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Prefatory Poem to my Brother’s Sonnets_;
_To Mary Boyle_;
_Progress of Spring_;
_Queen Mary_.

CUCKOO-FLOWER.

A species of Cardamine, called also _Lady’s Smock_.

_Margaret_;
_May Queen_.

CULVER.

A dove, or wood-pigeon.

_Progress of Spring._

CUMBERLAND.

_Promise of May._

CUNOBELINE.

= Cámulodúne (_q.v._)

CUPID.

In Roman mythology the God of love, and the son of Mercury and Venus; represented as a winged boy and armed with a bow and a quiver of arrows. In Apuleius’ _Golden Ass_ Cupid and Psyche (_q.v._) are the subjects of a beautiful fable representing the soul of perfection.

_Edwin Morris_;
_Talking Oak_;
_The Princess_;
_Becket_.

CUSHIE.

Name of a cow.

_Spinster’s Sweet-Arts._

CYGNET.

A young swan.

_Lancelot and Elaine._

CYPRESS.

An evergreen tree, whose branches used to be used at funerals and to adorn tombs, hence a symbol of mourning and sadness.

_Amphion_;
_The Princess_;
_The Daisy_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Dedicatory Poem to the Princess Alice_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_;
_Akbar’s Dream_;
_The Cup_.

CYRIL.

One of the two friends of prince Arac. A man of vigorous, healthy common-sense, undisturbed by haunting fancies, unfettered by false modesty, and as clear-sighted as jovial. In gaining admission to the ladies’ college he had a very humorous manner in dealing with two of the tutors. Psyche he appeased, by complimenting her abilities as a lecturer, and admiring Aglaïa, her baby. The lady Blanche he silenced by appealing to her ambitions.

_The Princess._

CYPRUS.

Again this Richard is the lion of Cyprus,
Robin, the lion of Sherwood--

= Richard Cœur de Lion. When journeying to Jerusalem on the third Crusade he stayed some time at this island, and here he married Berengaria of Navarre, after having deposed the ruler of the island.

_The Foresters._

CYRUS.

A warlike and blood-thirsty king who after subduing the eastern parts of Asia organized an expedition against the Massagetæ in Scythia. Tomyris (_q.v._), queen of the Massagetæ, met and defeated him, and cutting off his head threw it into a vessel filled with human blood, remarking as she did so, ‘There, drink thy fill,’

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

_The Princess._

CZAR.

And Jack on his ale-house bench has as many lies as a Czar;

Represents the indignation of the English people with Russia in 1853 at her destruction of the independence of Poland, and its tyrannous demand for the surrender of the Hungarian refugees.

_Maud._

DAFFODIL.

A plant of the genus _Narcissus_. It has a bulbous root, and flowers of a yellow hue.

_Maud_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Prefatory Sonnet to the ‘Nineteenth Century.’_

DAFFODILLY.

= Daffodil.

_The Princess._

DAGONET.

King Arthur’s Fool and a Knight of the Round Table.

And upon a day Sir Dagonet, King Arthur’s fool, came into Cornwall,
with two squires with him,

* * * * *

For they would not for no good that Sir Dagonet were hurt, for king
Arthur loved him passing well, and made him knight with his own
hands. And at every tournament he began to make king Arthur to laugh.

Malory: _Morte d’Arthur, Book X. chap. xii._

Tennyson says that he was made a mock-knight by Gawain.

Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood
Had made mock-knight of Arthur’s Table Round,
At Camelot,

_Last Tournament._

DAHOMEY.

A French colony on the Guinea coast of Africa. The colony represents the former native kingdom of Dahomey, where human victims were offered in sacrifice, but these were prohibited after the country was subdued by the French in 1892.

Head-hunters and boats of Dahomey that float upon human blood!

_The Dawn._

DAISY.

Name of a cow.

_Queen Mary._

DAISY.

A common wild-flower.

_Two Voices_;
_Gardener’s Daughter_;
_The Daisy_;
_City Child_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Maud_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_The Wreck_;
_The Ring_;
_The Throstle_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Promise of May_;
_The Foresters_.

DAMON.

The polish’d Damon of your pastoral here,
This Dobson of your idyll?

A goat-herd in Virgil’s _Eclogues_.

_Promise of May._

DAN. DANNY O’ROON.

The lover of a certain Molly Magee. They agreed to meet on the morrow at a chapel-door, but that to-morrow never came. Years afterwards his body was found in a peat bog, perfectly preserved. Molly recognized the body as that of her former lover and fell dead by his side.

_Tomorrow._

DANAË.

An Argive princess, daughter of Acrisius (_q.v._), king of Argos. She was confined in an inaccessible tower of brass by her father, where she was visited by Jupiter in the form of a shower of gold, and became the mother of Perseus. She was then, with her son, cast into the sea, but was rescued by a fisherman named Dictys, of the island of Seriphos. Polydectes, king of the island, wished her to marry him, but Perseus rescued her, and took her back to Greece.

The included Danaë has escaped again
Her tower, and her Acrisius--where to seek?
I have been about the city.

_The Princess_;
_Becket_.

DANAÏD.

Danaus, king of Argos, had fifty daughters, called the Danaïds. Ægyptus, brother of Belus, king of Egypt, and his fifty sons drove Danaus and his fifty daughters from Egypt into Argos. The sons of Ægyptus subsequently followed and compelled Danaus to give his daughters in marriage. At their father’s command they all (with one exception), murdered their husbands on their wedding-night, and were punished in Hades by having to pour water everlastingly into sieves.

Let not your prudence, dearest, drowse, or prove
The Danaïd of a leaky vase,

The heads of the sons of Ægyptus were buried at Argos; but their bodies were left at Lerna, where they had been murdered.

_The Princess._

DANCE OF DEATH.

An allegorical representation of the universal power of death, dating from the fourteenth century. Frescoes of the Dance of Death are painted on the walls of the Campo Santo at Pisa; on the walls of the Tower of London; the cloister of St. Paul’s; the Hungerford Chapel at Salisbury Cathedral; and many other churches.

_Queen Mary._

DAN CHAUCER.

Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath
Preluded those melodious bursts that fill
The spacious times of great Elizabeth
With sounds that echo still.

Dan is a title of honour commonly used by old poets.

_Dream of Fair Women._

DANIEL.

Refers to Daniel, a book of the Old Testament.

_Sea Dreams._

DANIEL.

Has reference to Daniel, the Hebrew Prophet.

_Harold._

DANNY. DANNY O’ROON.

_See_ =Dan=.

_Tomorrow._

DAN SMITH.

A farm labourer.

_Promise of May._

DANTE.

The most distinguished of the Italian poets.

_Palace of Art._

DANUBE.

The Danube to the Severn gave
The darken’d heart that beat no more;
They laid him by the pleasant shore,
And in the hearing of the wave.

Let her great Danube rolling fair
Enwind her isles, unmark’d of me:
I have not seen, I will not see
Vienna;

Arthur Henry Hallam, died at Vienna on the Danube, and was buried at Clevedon on the Severn.

_In Memoriam._

DARNLEY BRIDGE.

There is Darnley bridge
It has more ivy;

_The Brook._

DARNLEY CHASE.

Then crost the common into Darnley chase
To show Sir Arthur’s deer.

_The Brook._

DAUPHIN, THE.

The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the Revolution of 1830 the title has been discontinued. Mary, queen of Scots, was married to the dauphin of France in 1558, who for a year (1559-60) was king Frances II.

_Queen Mary._

DAVID.

King David called the heavens a hide,

_See Psalm civ. 2._

_Columbus._

DAVID.

They say the gloom of Saul
Was lightened by young David’s harp

_See Samuel xvi. 23._

_Queen Mary._

DAVID.

And no David
To meet him?

_See Samuel xvii._

_Harold._

DAWES (Jocky).

_See_ =Jocky Dawes=.

_Walking to the Mail._

DEAD INNOCENCE.

_See_ =Tournament of the Dead Innocence=.

DEAD MARCH.

Hush, the Dead March wails in the people’s ears:
The dark crowd moves, and there are sobs and tears:

= a funeral march in Handel’s _Oratorio_.

_Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington._

DEAN.

An ancient royal forest in the west of Gloucestershire.

_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Pelleas and Ettarre_.

DE BRITO.

One of the murderers of Thomas Becket.

_Becket._

DE BROC.

of Saltwood Castle. It was at this castle that the four knights--murderers of Becket--stayed upon their arrival in England from Normandy, and from thence proceeded to Canterbury.

_Becket._

DEE.

The river Dee; rises in Bala lake in Merionethshire and flows into the Irish Sea. The ancient Britons considered it to be a sacred river, its ancient name Deva meaning divine.

As the south-west that blowing Bala lake
Fills all the sacred Dee.

_Geraint and Enid._

DEER.

A quadruped of several species, as the stag, the fallow-deer, the reindeer, etc.

_Talking Oak_;
_Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere_;
_The Brook_;
_Aylmer’s Field_;
_The Princess_;
_The Victim_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Last Tournament_;
_Harold_;
_Becket_;
_The Cup_;
_The Foresters_.

DELIUS.

A surname of Apollo, because he was born at Delos.

_Lucretius._

DE MORVILLE.

Hugh de Morville, son of Hugh de Morville, of Burgh-on-Sands, and one who took part in the murder of Thomas Becket. He married Helwis de Stuteville and thus inherited the castle of Knaresborough. There is scant evidence as to whether he actually struck the archbishop, as he kept back the crowd which were pouring into the cathedral. After the murder he rode with his companions to Saltwood Castle, and thence to Knaresborough, where he sheltered his fellow-murderers, and finally was sent by the pope to the Holy Land as a penance, after which he regained the royal favour. He died in 1204.

_Becket._

DEMOS.

Celtic Demos rose a Demon,

The mob of France, with Celtic blood in their veins.

_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After._

DENIS. DENIS OF FRANCE.

Bishop of Paris and patron saint of France. One of the missionaries sent from Rome in the third century to convert the Gauls. By order of the Roman governor he was tortured and put to death about 270 +A.D.+

Ay, by St. Denis, now will he flame out,
And lose his head as old St. Denis did.

_Becket._

DENMARK.

The King of France is with us; the King of Denmark is with us; the
world is with us--war against Spain!

_Queen Mary._

DERWENT.

A river in Derbyshire.

Where lie the Norsemen? on the Derwent? ay
At Stamford-bridge.

_Harold._

DESENZANO.

Row us out from Desenzano, to your Sirmione row!
So they row’d, and there we landed--

A small town at the south-west angle of the Lago de Garda in Italy.

_Frater Ave Atque Vale._

DE TRACY.