Chapter VI: Part 6

William de Tracy, one of the murderers of Thomas Becket. He was the first to approach the archbishop, and struggled before the altar with Becket who dashed him on the pavement. He is considered to have struck the first mortal blow which nearly severed the arm of Edward Grim--Becket’s cross-bearer--who rushed between the archbishop and De Tracy. With his fellow-murderers he rode back to Saltwood Castle, and thence to Knaresborough, the home of de Morville; and was the first of the four to surrender himself to the pope; but the last to set out for the Holy Land. He however got no farther than the isle of Sicily, where he was taken ill of a foul disease and died in 1173, praying for forgiveness.

_Becket._

DEVILSTOW.

He bad me put her into a nunnery--
Into Godstow, into Hellstow, Devilstow!
The Church! the Church!
God’s eyes!

_Becket._

DEVON.

_See_ =Courtenay, Earl of Devon=.

DEVON (County of).

_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Geraint and Enid_;
_The Revenge_;
_Queen Mary_.

DIAN.

_See_ =Diana=.

_The Princess_;
_The Foresters_.

DIANA.

An Italian goddess, the dispenser of light, identified with the Greek goddess Artemis (_q.v._). She was a virgin goddess represented as presiding over the open country, armed with a bent bow and quiver and attended by gods. The temple of Diana at Ephesus was one of the seven wonders of the world.

but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be
despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and
the world worshippeth.

_Acts xix. 27._

_Literary Squabbles_;
_The Cup_.

DICK.

Thim’s my noätions, Sammy, wheerby I means to stick;
But if thou marries a bad un, I’ll leäve the land to Dick.--

Son of a northern farmer, who was to receive the lands at his father’s death, if his brother married ‘a bad ’un.’

_Northern Farmer, New Style._

DICK--DICKY.

Son of a north of England farmer. When young his life was saved by their faithful dog ‘Owd Roä.’

_Owd Roä._

DICKON.

look ye, here’s little Dickon, and little Robin, and little Jenny--

One of a crowd of women and children collected together on London Bridge.

_Queen Mary._

DICKON.

One of the three pages attendant on queen Mary.

_Queen Mary._

DIDO.

Ilion falling, Rome arising, wars, and filial faith, and Dido’s
pyre;

Daughter of Belus, king of Tyre. Having put Sichæus to death for the sake of his wealth she fled to Africa and founded Carthage. Hairbas, king of the Libyans, made suit for her hand in marriage, but in order to escape him she erected a funeral pyre and stabbed herself in the presence of her subjects. According to Virgil she fell in love with Æneas, who fleeing from Troy, visited Dido at Carthage, but the gods ordered him to leave her, and on his doing so she stabbed herself with a sword given her by him. When Porson, the celebrated Greek scholar--who boasted he could rhyme on any subject, was asked to rhyme upon the three Latin gerunds, he gave this couplet:

When Dido found Eneas would not come,
She mourned in silence, and was Di-do dum (b).

Brewer: _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable._

_To Virgil._

DIES ILLA. DIES IRÆ.

let ’em look to it,
Cranmer and Hooper, Ridley and Latimer,
Rogers and Ferrar, for their time is come.
Their hour is hard at hand, their ‘dies Iræ,’
Their ‘dies Illa,’ which will test their sect.

_Dies Illa_ = That (awful) day. _Dies Iræ_ = Day of Wrath; the name of a famous mediæval Latin hymn on the Last Judgment, the opening lines of which are:

Dies iræ, dies illa,
Solvet sæclum, in favilla
Teste David cum sybilla.

The day of wrath, that dreadful day
Shall all the world in ashes lay,
As David and the sybils say.

The hymn is supposed to have been written by Thomas de Celano, a Franciscan friar of the thirteenth century. Macaulay’s version of the lines is:

On that great, that awful day,
This vain world shall pass away,
Thus the sibyl sang of old.

_Queen Mary._

DIET.

Yet while they rode together down the plain.
Their talk was all of training, terms of art,
Diet and seeling, jesses, leash and lure.

Has reference to the feeding of hawks, which was an important matter in their management.

_Merlin and Vivien._

DIM SAESNEG.

The Shepherd, when I speak,
Failing a sudden eyelid with his hard
‘Dim Saesneg’ passes, wroth at things of old--

Two Welsh words meaning ‘no Saxon’ and ‘no English.’

_Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham._

DIOTIMA.

A Mantineia priestess, the teacher of Socrates. Socrates was put to death by poison in 399 +B.C.+ on a charge of teaching atheistic and immoral doctrines. The usual method of inflicting the death penalty in Athens at that period was by a decoction of the hemlock.

beneath an emerald plane
Sits Diotima, teaching him that died
Of hemlock;

_The Princess._

DIRCÊ.

Wife of Lycus, king of Thebes, who for her ill-treatment of Antiope, her divorced predecessor, was by Antiope’s two sons--Amphion (_q.v._) and Zethus--tied to the tail of a wild bull, which dragged her about, until the gods, pitying her sufferings, changed her into a fountain, which bore her name ever after.

_Tiresias._

DIVES.

When Dives loathed the times, and paced his land
In fear of worse,
And sanguine Lazarus felt a vacant hand
Fill with _his_ purse.

The name given to the rich man in the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. _Luke xvi._

_To Mary Boyle._

DOBBINS (Dobson).

_Promise of May._

DOBSON.

A farmer, in love with Dora, daughter of farmer Steer.

_Promise of May._

DOE.

The female of the fallow-deer.

_The Foresters_;
_Lady Clare_.

DON.

‘We be all good English men.
Let us bang these dogs of Seville, the children of the devil,
For I never turn’d my back upon Don or devil yet.’

A Spanish title.

_The Revenge._

DON CARLOS.

_See_ =Carlos=.

DONOVAN’S WAKE.

An’ he ped me back wid the best he could give at ould Donovan’s wake--

A wake is a festival held on the anniversary of a patron saint, especially in Ireland.

_Tomorrow._

DOON (Bonny).

_See_ =Bonny Doon=.

DOORM.

A russet-bearded earl who tried to make Enid his mistress; and because she would not consent smote her on the cheek; whereupon her husband, Sir Geraint, cut off his head with one stroke of his sword.

Take my salute,’ unknightly with flat hand,
However lightly, smote her on the cheek.
Then Enid,

* * * * *

Sent forth a sudden sharp and bitter cry,

* * * * *

This heard Geraint, and grasping at his sword,
(It lay beside him in the hollow shield),
Made but a single bound, and with a sweep of it
Shore thro’ the swarthy neck, and like a ball
The russet-bearded head roll’d on the floor.

_Geraint and Enid._

DORA.

A niece of farmer Allan.

_Dora._

DORA. DORA STEER.

Daughter of farmer Steer, and sister of Eva (_q.v._).

_Promise of May._

DORMOUSE.

A rodent, so-called because they are usually torpid in winter. It is allied to the mouse, and resembles the squirrel in habits.

_The Window._

DORSET--DORSETSHIRE (County of).

_First Quarrel._

DOVE.

A pigeon.

_Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind_;
_Miller’s Daughter_;
_Gardener’s Daughter’s Walking to the Mail_;
_Locksley Hall_;
_Lucretius_;
_The Princess_;
_The Window_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Maud_;
_To E. Fitzgerald_;
_Progress of Spring_;
_Harold_;
_Becket_.

DOVER.

A seaport in Kent.

_Queen Mary_;
_Harold_;
_Becket_.

DRAGON.

Inn sign.

Slip-shod waiter, lank and sour,
At the Dragon on the heath!
Let us have a quiet hour,
Let us hob-and-nob with Death.

_Vision of Sin._

DRAGON-FLY.

An insect of the family _libellula_.

_Two Voices_;
_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Lover’s Tale_.

DRAGON OF THE GREAT PENDRAGONSHIP.

And while he spake to these his helm was lower’d,
To which for crest the golden dragon clung
Of Britain; so she did not see the face,
Which then was an angel’s, but she saw,
Wet with the mists and smitten by the lights,
The Dragon of the great Pendragonship
Blaze, making all the night a steam of fire.

The crest of Arthur’s helmet. Spenser describes it thus:

His haughtie Helmet, horrid all with god,
Both glorious brightnesse and great terrour bredd:
For all the crest a Dragon did enfold
With greedie pawes, and over all did spredd
His golden winges: his dreadfull hideous hedd
Close couched on the bever, seemed to throw
From flaming mouth bright sparckles fiery redd,
That suddeine horrour to faint hartes did show;
And scaly tayle was stretcht adowne his back full low.

Spenser: _Faerie Queene, Book I. Canto vii._

_Guinevere._

DRAGON’S MOUTH.

And made West East, and sail’d the Dragon’s mouth,

The passage between the island of Trinidad and the peninsula of Paria, South America. In the rainy months of July and August the impetuous body of water which flows through the gulf of Paria renders the entrance and exit extremely dangerous to navigation.

_Columbus._

DRUID.

A priest among the ancient Celtic nations, particularly of Gaul and Britain.

_Boädicea._

DRUIDESS.

A prophetess, or a female Druid.

_Boädicea._

DRYAD-LIKE.

And when my marriage morn may fall,
She, Dryad-like, shall wear
Alternate leaf and acorn-ball
In wreath about her hair.

In Greek mythology the Dryads were nymphs who were supposed to dwell in the forests.

_Talking Oak._

DUBRIC,

or Dubritius, archbishop of Caerleon-upon-Usk; the ‘City of Legions,’ and primate of Britain. Geoffrey of Monmouth says:

He was primate of Britain, was so eminent for his piety, that he
could cure any sick person by his prayers.

Tennyson calls him ‘Dubric the high saint,’ and he is mentioned on the occasion of the marriage of king Arthur and Guinevere; and also as having set the crown on the head of Arthur at Caerleon-upon-Usk.

To whom arrived, by Dubric the high saint,
Chief of the Church in Britain, and before
The stateliest of her altar-shrines, the King
That morn was married,

_Coming of Arthur._

And all that week was old Caerleon gay,
For by the hands of Dubric, the high saint,
They twain were wedded with all ceremony.

_Marriage of Geraint._

_Coming of Arthur_;
_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Geraint and Enid_.

DUDLEY (Guildford).

_See_ =Guildford Dudley=.

DUGLAS.

The scene of four Arthurian battles. The Duglas is said to be the river Douglas in Lancashire which falls into the estuary of the Ribble. Other authorities consider it is a stream in Lennox, which falls into Loch Lomond.

And in the four loud battles by the shore
Of Duglas;

_Lancelot and Elaine._

DUMBLE.

Name of a cow.

_Queen Mary._

DUNSTAN.

Archbishop of Canterbury, born at Glastonbury in 924. In 945 he was made abbot of Glastonbury by king Edmund, and soon made the monastery famous as a seat of learning. King Edgar created him bishop of Worcester, and afterwards bishop of London. In 959, consequent on the death of Edwy, Edgar became king of the whole of England and he made Dunstan archbishop of Canterbury. He died in 958 and was afterwards canonized.

_Harold._

DURHAM (Dean of).

_Queen Mary._

DWARF-ELM.

An elm which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind.

_Pelleas and Ettarre._

DYFLEN.

= Dublin.

Shaping their way toward Dyflen again,
Shamed in their souls.

_Battle of Brunanburh._

EAGLE.

A rapacious bird of the genus _Falco_.

_Palace of Art_;
_Golden Year_;
_Godiva_;
_The Princess_;
_Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington_;
_Boädicea_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Coming of Arthur_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_Last Tournament_;
_Montenegro_;
_Battle of Brunanburh_;
_The Wreck_;
_Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition_.

EAGLE-OWL.

A genus of large owls.

_Gareth and Lynette._

EDEN.

_Two Voices_;
_Gardener’s Daughter_;
_Locksley Hall_;
_Day-Dream_;
_Enoch Arden_;
_The Princess_;
_The Islet_;
_Milton_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Maud_;
_Geraint and Enid_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Happy_;
_The Foresters_.

EDEN-ISLES.

The Philippine islands.

_To Ulysses._

EDGAR (the Atheling).

A Saxon prince, and grandson of Edmund Ironside; was proclaimed king of England after the death of Harold at the battle of Senlac, but was kept out of the throne by the Conqueror. He made two unsuccessful attempts to overthrow William, and compelled to leave the country took refuge with Malcolm, king of Scotland, who married Edgar’s sister Margaret. Embracing the cause of Robert, duke of Normandy against Rufus, he was driven from Scotland and went with Baldwin II, to the Crusades; was finally taken prisoner in 1106 when fighting for duke Robert against his brother Henry I. He died in obscurity.

_Harold._

EDGAR (afterwards Mr. Harold).

_See_ =Eva=.

_Promise of May._

EDITH.

Eadgyth Swanneshals (Edith of the Swan’s neck); ward of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards the mistress of king Harold. After the battle of Senlac she went in search of the body of Harold and found it underneath a heap of slain.

_Harold._

EDITH.

_See_ =Aylmer=.

_Aylmer’s Field._

EDITH.

Wife of the impetuous boy lover mentioned in _Locksley Hall_. Years brought reconciliation to him, and a stronger, deeper and more reasonable love for Edith.

She with all the charm of woman, she with all the breadth of man,
Strong in will and rich in wisdom, Edith, yet so lowly-sweet,
Woman in her inmost heart, and woman to her tender feet.’

_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After._

EDITH.

One of two sisters--the other being Evelyn--both of whom were loved by the same man, who eventually married Evelyn, Edith being bridesmaid. During the wedding ceremony she was pale and statuelike, and spoke no word at parting. Her grief at her sister’s marriage with her former lover, was so great that she died soon afterwards.

_Sisters (Evelyn and Edith)._

EDITH. EDITH MONTFORT.

Betrothed to Ralph who took part in the tournament, and earned great praise from his king. At the conclusion of the tournament Edith crowned Ralph

and flush’d as red
As poppies when she crown’d it.

_The Tourney._

EDMUND.

Brother of Lawrence Aylmer. On account of ill health he went to the warm climate of Italy, but the journey was taken when it was too late to save his life. Poetry and not money-making was what he cared for:

One whom the strong sons of the world despise;
For lucky rhymes to him were scrip and share,
And mellow metres more than cent for cent;

* * * * *

‘Poor lad, he died at Florence, quite worn out,
Travelling to Naples.’

_The Brook._

EDMUND ATHELING.

King of the Mercians and West Saxons, son of Edward the Elder; was present at the battle of Brunanburh in 937, where he and his brother Athelstan (_q.v._) gained a decisive victory over Anlaf the Dane, Constantine of Scotland and the Northumbrian Danes; succeeded his brother in 941. On May 26, 946, an outlaw named Leof slipped into the banqueting-hall of Edmund, who was celebrating the festival of St. Augustine at Pucklechurch in Gloucester. The king endeavoured to remove him, whereupon the outlaw stabbed him with a dagger (922-946).

_Battle of Brunanburh._

EDMUND IRONSIDE.

_See_ =English Ironside=.

EDMUND (Saint).

King of the East Angles. Son of king Alkmund of Saxony, he was adopted by Offa, king of the East Angles as his heir, and succeeded 855. In 870, during the Danish invasion, he was defeated at Hoxne, and, being captured by the Danes was beheaded on refusing to renounce Christianity. He was buried at Hoxne, but his remains were afterwards translated to Bury St. Edmunds. He was subsequently canonized (841-870).

_Harold._

EDWARD (the Confessor).

King of England and the elder son of Ethelred the Unready; born at Islip, Oxfordshire; married Edith, daughter of the great earl Godwin, and succeeded to the throne in 1042. The greater part of his life was spent in Normandy. He was a pious and peaceful man, but a feeble monarch. He died in 1066 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. In 1161 he was canonized by Alexander III (1004-1066).

_Harold._

EDWARD (the Elder).

King of the Anglo-Saxons (921-925). He was the eldest son and successor of Alfred the Great, and most of his reign was spent in war with the Danes, regaining from them the greater portion of central England.

_Battle of Brunanburh._

EDWARD (the First).

Surnamed Longshanks, king of England, eldest son of Henry III, born at Westminster in 1239, ascended the throne in 1272, married Eleanor of Castile. He came first into prominence in the war with the Barons, whom he defeated at Evesham; joined the last Crusade in 1270, and distinguished himself at Acre; returned to England in 1274 to assume the crown, having been two years previously proclaimed king. Under his reign Wales was finally subdued and annexed to England, and during the latter part of his reign was largely engaged in Scottish affairs, winning the battle of Falkirk in 1298, and seven years later captured and executed Wallace. Some years previously Edward had, along with queen Eleanor, visited Glastonbury and taken away as relics the skulls of king Arthur and queen Guinevere, which had been found buried in Glastonbury Abbey. He died in 1307 at Burgh-on-sands while leading an army against Robert Bruce.

_Queen Mary._

EDWARD (the Third).

King of England, born at Windsor 1312, son of Edward II whom he succeeded in 1327. During his boyhood the government was carried on by regency. In 1328 the independence of Scotland was recognized, but the principal event of his reign was the beginning of the Hundred Years’ War with France. In 1340 Edward defeated the French fleet at Sluys, one of the earliest victories of English arms at sea; on August 26, 1346, he routed the French forces at Creçy; and in October of the same year queen Philippa defeated the Scots--who had invaded England--at Neville’s Cross. In 1347 Edward captured Calais, but the ravages of the black death in the succeeding year stopped hostilities for a time. In 1355 the war was resumed, and in the following year the Black Prince won a brilliant victory at Poitiers. By the peace of Bretigny in 1360 Calais, Ponthieu, Gascony and the greater part of the duchy of Aquitaine were added to the English crown. War broke out again in 1369, but it proved disastrous to England, involving as it did the withdrawal of Edward’s claim to the French crown. The Black Prince died in 1376, and twelve months later Edward died, having reigned fifty years. It was during this reign that the Lords and Commons first sat in different chambers and the Order of the Garter instituted.

_On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria._

EDWARD (the Fourth).

King of England, son of Richard, duke of York, born 1442. He succeeded the Lancastrian Henry VI in 1461, whom he defeated at Towton. The chief event of his reign was the War of the Roses, the Yorkists gaining victories at Hedgeley Moor, Hexham, Barnet and Tewkesbury. During his reign Caxton introduced the printing press. He died in 1483.

_Queen Mary._

EDWARD (the Sixth).

King of England, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, born 1537. Being only nine years old at his succession, the government was carried on by regency under the earl of Hertford and later the duke of Somerset. His reign was marked by a victory over the Scots at Pinkie in 1547, and in 1549 the first Prayer Book of Edward VI was issued. In the same year Somerset was deposed from the protectorate, and Warwick, who in 1551 had become duke of Northumberland became supreme, and had Somerset executed in January 1552. In the same year the second Prayer Book of Edward VI--which was of a more reformed type than the first--was issued, as well as the forty-two articles embodying the doctrines of the Church. By the advice of Northumberland he left the crown to lady Jane Grey. He died in 1553, having reigned only six years.

_Queen Mary._

EDWARD.

Christian name.

_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After._

EDWARD BULL.

A curate friend of Edwin Morris, who was spending a holiday by a lake.

_Edwin Morris._

EDWARD GRAY.

The lover of Ellen Adair, who on account of her shyness, which he mistook for coldness, left her, and went across the sea. On his return he found she had pined and died. He reproached himself for his treatment of her, and

will love no more, no more,
Till Ellen Adair come back to me.

_Edward Gray._

EDWARD HEAD.

The subject of a conversation between two men walking to the mail. He left his country house and went abroad, vex’d with a melancholy that possessed him like an evil spirit.

‘sick of home went overseas for change.’

_Walking to the Mail._

EDWIN.

The absent lover of one of two sisters, who had gone on a voyage to

‘those islands of the Blest!

While he was away her father planned a marriage which to her was loathsome, and in order to avoid it, the two sisters decided to fly away together.

O would I were in Edwin’s arms--once more--to feel his breath,
Upon my cheek--on Edwin’s ship, with Edwin, ev’n in death,

_The Flight._

EDWIN.

Earl of Mercia, son of Alfgar, whom he succeeded in 1062; joined his brother Morcar in his revolt against earl Tostig, and was defeated by the Norsemen, under Hardrada at Fulford Gate, near York, September 20, 1066. After the battle of Senlac he opposed the Conqueror, and made his last stand in person on the banks of the river Weaver, near Nantwich, but being defeated, surrendered, made submission to William and was pardoned. In 1071 he joined the insurrection in the Isle of Ely under Hereward the Wake, and met his death on his way to the ‘Camp of Refuge.’

_Harold._

EDWIN. EDWIN MORRIS.

A man skilled in botany and geology, a poet, and with various other accomplishments.

he seem’d
All-perfect, finish’d to the finger nail.

He made the friendship of a man who had intended to spend a holiday by the lake, but being disappointed in his love affair,

left Edwin, nor have seen
Him since, nor heard of her, nor cared to hear.

_Edwin Morris._

EDYRN.

Son of Nudd, and nephew of earl Yniol. He was a malicious man, and was called the ‘sparrow-hawk.’

And toppling over all antagonism
Had earn’d himself the name of sparrow-hawk

He ousted his uncle from his earldom and attempted to win his daughter Enid, but was unsuccessful. Being overthrown in a tournament by sir Geraint, he was compelled to restore the earldom to Yniol, after which he was sent to the court of Arthur, and became a reformed character.

_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Geraint and Enid_.

EFFIE.

Sister to the ‘Queen of the May’ (_q.v._).

Little Effie shall go with me to-morrow to the green,
And you’ll be there, too, mother, to see me made the Queen;

_May Queen._

EGBERT.

These old pheasant-lords,
These partridge-breeders of a thousand years,
Who had mildew’d in their thousands, doing nothing
Since Egbert--why, the greater their disgrace!

Has reference to Egbert, king of the West Saxons.

_Aylmer’s Field._

EGLANTINE.

A name given to the sweet-brier, and some other species of rose. Milton seems to have applied the name to some twining plant--

Through the sweet-briar or the vine,
Or the twisted eglantine.

Milton: _L’Allegro, 47-48._

_The Window_;
_Lover’s Tale_.

EGLATERE.

= Eglantine.

_A Dirge._

EGYPT.

_Dream of Fair Women_;
_The Princess_;
_To Professor Jebb_;
_Becket_;
_The Cup_;
_Promise of May_;
_Columbus_.

ELAINE.

The ‘lily maid of Astolat,’ daughter of king Pelles, and mother of Galahad, son of Lancelot; a lady at the court of king Arthur in love with Lancelot, whose shield she had in her charge.

Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable,
Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat,
High in her chamber up a tower to the east
Guarded the sacred shield of Lancelot:

When Lancelot claimed the shield and bid the damsel good-bye she confessed her love for him; but being told by Sir Lancelot that his love was another’s, she pined and died. According to her dying request her dead body was placed on a bed in a barge, with a letter in her right hand, and, thus conveyed to the palace of king Arthur. The letter, telling of her love for Lancelot was handed to the king who ordered her story to be blazoned on her tomb.

And while my body is hot, let this letter be put in my right hand,
and my hand bound fast with the letter until that I be cold and let
me be put in a fair bed ... and so let my bed ... be laid with me in
a chariot unto the next place where Thames is, and there let me be
put within a barget,

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

When the barget arrived before the king, he took the latter and brake it and made a clerk to read it: this being the substance of the letter:

Most noble knight, Sir Launcelot, now hath death made us two at
debate for your love; I was your lover, that men called the fair
maiden of Astolat; therefore unto all ladies I make my moan; yet pray
for my soul, and bury me at the least and offer ye my mass-penny.
This is my last request. And a clean maiden I died, I take God to
witness. Pray for my soul, Sir Launcelot, as thou art peerless.

Malory: _Morte d’Arthur, Book XVIII. chap. xx._

_Lancelot and Elaine._

ELBURZ.

A mountain range in North Persia, south of the Caspian.

_A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna,
Duchess of Edinburgh._

ELEANOR.

of Aquitaine, daughter of duke William X of Aquitaine; married Louis VII of France, 1137, divorced 1152, and in the following year married Henry, count of Anjou and duke of Normandy, afterwards Henry II of England. Became jealous of Henry on account of his paramour the ‘fair Rosamund,’ whom she poisoned. For exciting her sons to rebel against their father she was imprisoned for sixteen years, released on the accession of Richard I, and in his absence in the Holy Land was made regent. She died a nun in the Abbey of Fontevrault in 1204.

_Dream of Fair Women_;
_Becket_.

ELEÄNORE.

_Eleanore._

ELEUSIS.

A town in ancient Attica, north-west of Athens. It possessed a famous temple for the worship of Demeter, and was the scene of an annual festival lasting nine days held in honour of Demeter and Persephonè. The Greek Archæological Society a few years ago discovered the remains of some of its famous buildings.

_Demeter and Persephone._

ELF.

A supernatural being, much like a fairy, supposed to haunt hills and wild places.

Every elf and fairy sprite,
Hop as light as bird from brier;

Shakespeare: _Midsummer-Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene i._

_The Foresters._

ELISABETTA.

Nurse to count Federigo degli Alberighi.

_The Falcon._

ELIZABETH.

Queen of England, and only child of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, born at Greenwich, 1533. She was educated in the Protestant religion, and in the reign of Mary was sent to the Tower, afterwards to Woodstock, where she was kept till 1555, being then taken to the royal palace at Hatfield. On the death of Mary in 1558 she was proclaimed queen, and four years later refused the offer of Philip II of Spain (husband of Mary) of marriage. In 1561 Mary, queen of the Scots, claimed to be Mary’s successor, but being defeated at Langside, fled to England and was confined by Elizabeth in Tutbury castle, and on the charge of conspiracy was beheaded. Pope Pius V in 1570 issued a bull excommunicating the queen, an act which was immediately answered by the enactment of penal statutes against the Roman Catholics. The chief event of her reign occurred in 1588, when Philip of Spain sent against England his Armada, to which the pope had given the appellation of Invincible--which was defeated by Drake and Hawkins. She died in 1603.

_Dream of Fair Women_;
_The Princess_;
_Queen Mary_.

ELIZABETH (Aunt).

‘To the Abbey: there is Aunt Elizabeth
And sister Lilia with the rest.’

Aunt to Walter, son of sir Walter Vivian, who lived at Maidstone Park. At the time of speaking, Elizabeth with others, was spending the day at the house of sir Walter Vivian, where a festival was being held.

_The Princess._

ELLEN.

An Isle of Wight girl, who told the story of her unhappy life to a sympathetic doctor. When quite young she was the sweetheart of a boy of the same village. When the boy--Harry--was grown up, a farmer relative sent for him to work on his farm. He said good-bye to Ellen, went to Dorsetshire, and while there got into trouble with another girl. He returned, and on Christmas Day married Ellen. Work was, however, scant in the Isle, so Harry crossed the Solent in search of employment. In waiting for his return Ellen set to righting the house, and found a letter written to Harry by the Dorsetshire girl. On his return she refused to be reassured by his assurances of his love and trust. He left her, and she refused to say good-bye. He wrote to say he had work in Jersey but in crossing, the boat went down and he was drowned.

_First Quarrel._

ELLEN. ELLEN ADAIR.

A maiden in love, much against the will of her parents, with a certain Edward Gray, who mistook her quiet and reserved manner for coldness and pride. Being angry with her he fled over the sea.

Shy she was, and I thought her cold;
Thought her proud, and fled over the sea;

During his absence she pined and died. On his return he saw his folly, but it was now too late.

Love may come, and love may go,
And fly, like a bird, from tree to tree;
But I will love no more, no more,
Till Ellen Adair come back to me.

Where her body is buried, there lies his heart also.

There lies the body of Ellen Adair!
And there the heart of Edward Gray!

_Edward Gray._

ELLEN. ELLEN AUBREY.

The subject of a song sung by Everard Hall, at the conclusion of a picnic, in reply to that sung by his friend, Francis Hale. Everard found the song in a book of songs, but substituted familiar names--of which Ellen Aubrey was one--in place of the original ones.

I found it in a volume, all of songs,

* * * * *

I set the words, and added names I knew.

_Audley Court._

ELM. ELM-TREE.

A tree of the genus _Ulmus_.

_Ode to Memory_;
_Gardener’s Daughter_;
_Amphion_;
_The Princess_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Balin and Balan_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_The Ring_;
_To Ulysses_;
_To Mary Boyle_;
_May Queen_;
_Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere_.

ELSINORE.

A seaport on the island of Zeeland in Denmark; and the scene of Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_.

_Buonaparte._

ELY (Bishop of).

_See_ =Thirlby=.

ELY (City of).

_Harold._

ELYSIAN.

= Elysium, the Greek heaven. There is a description of the place in the _Odyssey_.

_Lotos-Eaters_;
_The Princess_.

ELYSIUM.

The land of the blest, where the souls of the righteous passed without dying. The place is considered to be the Canary Islands.

_Demeter and Persephone._

EMILIA.

Sister of Ellen Aubrey, both of whom are mentioned in a song sung by Everard Hall, at a picnic held at Audley Court. Francis Hale, friend of the poet, sang a song, and Everard replied with one the opening lines of which were--

‘Sleep, Ellen Aubrey, sleep, and dream of me:
Sleep, Ellen, folded in thy sister’s arm,
And sleeping, haply dream her arm is mine.
Sleep, Ellen, folded in Emilia’s arm;’

_Audley Court._

EMMA MORELAND.

Met Edward Gray on his return to his native country, and asked him,

‘Are you married yet, Edward Gray?’

to which he replied, weeping,

‘Sweet Emma Moreland, love no more
Can touch the heart of Edward Gray.

He related to her the sad death of Ellen Adair, and told her that love will never again touch his heart, as it is buried with Ellen Adair.

_Edward Gray._

EMMIE.

A little girl who died in the ward of a children’s hospital, after undergoing an operation.

_In the Children’s Hospital._

EMPEROR-MOTH.

One of the several large and beautiful moths, the prevailing colours being dark grey, brown and reddish yellow.

_The Princess._

EMRYS (Aurelius).

_See_ =Aurelius=.

’ENEMIES.

Anemones.

_Northern Farmer, Old Style._

ENGLAND.

_Talking Oak_;
_Amphion_;
_Enoch Arden_;
_Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington_;
_Third of February_;
_A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna,
Duchess of Edinburgh_;
_The Daisy_;
_On Translations of Homer_;
_Milton_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Dedication of Idylls_;
_To the Queen, II_;
_Dedicatory Poem to the Princess Alice_;
_Defence of Lucknow_;
_Columbus_;
_To Victor Hugo_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_;
_Prologue to General Hamley_;
_Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe_;
_Hands all Round_;
_The Fleet_;
_To Professor Jebb_;
_Kapiolani_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Harold_;
_Becket_;
_The Foresters_.

ENGLISH GARTER.

and round his knee, misplaced,
Our English Garter, studded with great emeralds,
Rubies, I know not what.

The Order of the Garter, an order of Knighthood instituted in 1344, by Edward III; it is the highest order of Knighthood, and is designated K.G.

_Queen Mary._

ENGLISH IRONSIDE.

Edmund the Second, commonly known as Ironside on account of his bravery, son of Ethelred the Unready and half-brother to the Confessor. Elected king in 1016, but only London acknowledged him, the rest of England accepting the rule of Canute the Dane, who was chosen king at Southampton. A fierce struggle therefore raged between him and Canute, and Edmund defeated the Danes at Pen in Somersetshire, at Sherborne, and at Otford. He was however defeated at Assandûn, where ‘all the flower of the English race perished’ and an arrangement was entered into at Olney, an island in the Severn, by which the kingdom was divided, Edmund receiving Wessex, East Anglia, Essex and London; and Canute Mercia and Northumbria; and it was further agreed that on the death of either the survivor was to succeed him. A few weeks after this agreement Edmund was assassinated at Oxford by two of his chamberlains (981-1016).

Or Athelstan, or English Ironside
Who fought with Knut, or Knut who coming Dane
Died English.

_Harold._

ENID.

Daughter of earl Yniol and the wife of sir Geraint, a Knight of the Round Table, who had delivered the earl from the tyranny of his nephew Edyrn. When Guinevere’s infidelity was spread about the court of Arthur, Geraint, in order to save Enid from the taint, left the court and removed to his mansion in Devonshire. Overhearing the latter part of a sentence uttered by her, Geraint charged her with unfaithfulness, and bade his wife to wear her meanest apparel.

And thou, put on thy worst and meanest dress,
And ride with me.’ And Enid ask’d, amazed,
‘If Enid errs, let Enid learn her fault.’

Being wounded in battle Enid nursed him with such devotion that he saw he had misjudged her. Full of repentance he expressed his mistake and they became reconciled, and ‘crown’d a happy life with a fair death.’

nor did he doubt her more
But rested in her fealty, till he crown’d
A happy life with a fair death, and fell
Against the heathen of the Northern Sea
In battle, fighting for the blameless King.

At the court of Arthur she was called ‘Enid the fair,’ but the people called her ‘Enid the good.’ The representation of purity, she was loved by queen Guinevere and was the most beautiful lady at Arthur’s court next after the queen.

_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Geraint and Enid_;
_Guinevere_.

ENNA.

A city of Sicily, remarkable for its fertile soil and numerous springs. In ancient times it possessed a famous temple of Demeter and another of Proserpine. Proserpine was carried off by Pluto while gathering flowers in the plain.

she moved,
Like Proserpine in Enna, gathering flowers:

_Edwin Morris_;
_Demeter and Persephone_;
_To Professor Jebb_.

ENOCH. ENOCH ARDEN.

The hero of _Enoch Arden_. He was a ‘rough sailor’s lad.’ At first he was successful, prospered in his fishing, became an able seaman on board a merchantman, and before he attained the age of twenty-one purchased his own boat and married Anne Lee, ‘the prettiest little damsel in the port.’ All things continued to go well until he fell from a mast and broke a limb, and the master of the ship he had served in hearing of his misfortune offered to take him as boatswain, to which Enoch consented. When the day of his departure arrived he kissed his wife and his two elder children, but the youngest, asleep in the cot, he would not waken, but took away with him a little curl from the baby’s head.

Enoch rose,
Cast his strong arms about his drooping wife,
And kiss’d his wonder-stricken little ones;
But for the third, the sickly one, who slept
After a night of feverous wakefulness,
When Annie would have raised him Enoch said,
‘Wake him not: let him sleep; how should the child
Remember this?’ and kiss’d him in his cot.
But Annie from her baby’s forehead clipt
A tiny curl, and gave it: this he kept
Thro’ all his future;

During his absence his wife had no success, and had it not been for Philip Ray would have sunk into poverty. Ten years passed away, and nothing having been heard of Enoch, Philip offered to marry her, and she became his wife. In the meantime, Enoch had on his homeward voyage been wrecked on a desert island. During his solitary life on the island, the sights and sounds of his home passed continually through his mind, until at length a ship took him off and he returned to England. Arriving at the little port he reached his old home,

But finding neither light nor murmur there
(A bill of sale gleam’d thro’ the drizzle) crept
Still downward thinking ‘dead or dead to me!’

Going to the village tavern he found that during his absence the landlord had passed away, but his widow, Miriam Lane, still held the house and here he rested. So completely had he changed that he lived at the tavern without being identified, and learned from Miriam Lane the story of his house.

Told him, with other annals of the port,
Not knowing--Enoch was so brown, so bow’d.
So broken--all the story of his house.
His baby’s death, her growing poverty,
How Philip put her little ones to school,
And kept them in it, his long wooing her,
Her slow consent and marriage,

But Enoch longed to see his wife again, and in the darkness went to Philip’s house, and through the window saw his wife and children in comfort on Philip’s hearth. Creeping from the garden he fell upon the earth and prayed for strength not to tell her, never to let her know. But he did not live long. Finding death dawning upon him he called for Miriam Lane, and under promise on the Bible not to divulge until after death, told her who he was, and taking from his pocket the dead child’s curl bade her to give it to Annie in order that she might know that it was really he, and to tell her that he died blessing her and her children and Philip. Three days afterwards he passed away, and in gratitude to this devoted soul was, by the villagers, accorded a rich funeral.

Then the third night after this,
While Enoch slumber’d motionless and pale,
And Miriam watch’d and dozed at intervals,
There came so loud a calling of the sea,
That all the houses in the haven rang.
He woke, he rose, he spread his arms abroad
Crying with a loud voice, ‘A sail! a sail!
I am saved:’ and so fell back and spoke no more.
So past the strong heroic soul away,
And when they buried him the little port
Had seldom seen a costlier funeral.

_Enoch Arden._

EPHESIAN ARTEMIS.

Artemis, Artemis, hear her,
Ephesian Artemis!

= Diana of the Ephesians. Her magnificent temple at Ephesus was burnt to the ground by Herostratos, in the same night in which Alexander the great was born (+B.C.+ 356). It was rebuilt by contributions from all the Ionian cities, and was regarded as one of the seven wonders of the world. This ‘Ephesian Artemis’ was apparently an ancient Asiatic deity whose worship the Greeks found in Ionia. Its image is stated to have fallen down from Jupiter (Acts, chap. xix. verse 35), the lord of Heaven.

_The Cup._

EPHESUS.

I have had a vision
The seven sleepers in the cave at Ephesus
Have turn’d from right to left.

Has reference to the seven Christian youths of Ephesus, who, in order to escape from the persecution of the Christians under Decius took refuge in a cave near that city. Being discovered, great stones were rolled against the entrance to the cave in order that they might die of hunger. They however fell into a supernatural sleep, and some 200 years afterwards, in the reign of Theodosius, they were discovered. One of the seven was sent to the city to purchase provisions, but was arrested for offering a coin of the time of Decius and brought before the authorities; but leading his accusers to the cavern where his six companions were found, was liberated. The seven sleepers is a favourite subject in early mediæval art.

_Harold._

ERIN.

The Celtic name for Ireland.

_Coming of Arthur._

ERNE (Miriam).

_See_ =Miriam, Miriam Erne=.

ERNE (Muriel).

_See_ =Muriel Erne=.

EROSES.

But a bevy of Eroses apple-cheek’d,
In a shallop of crystal ivory-beak’d,
With a satin sail of a ruby glow.

= gods.

_The Islet._

ESAÏAS.

Word of God
In English: over this the brainless loons
That cannot spell Esaïas from St. Paul,
Make themselves drunk and mad, fly out and flare
Into rebellions.

= Isaiah.

_Queen Mary._

ESAU.

And from a heart as rough as Esau’s hand,
He answer’d, ‘Ride you naked thro’ the town,
And I repeal it;’

_See Genesis xxvii. 23._

_Godiva._

ESH. ESHTREE.

= Ash-tree.

_Northern Farmer, New Style_;
_Promise of May_.

ESHCOL.

over which there roll’d
To meet me long-arm’d vines with grapes
Of Eshcol hugeness.

The name signifies a bunch of grapes. _See Numbers_ xiii. 23-24.

_To E. Fitzgerald._

ESSEX.

Why, Madam, she was passing
Some chapel down in Essex, and with her
Lady Anne Wharton, and the Lady Anne
Bow’d to the Pyx;

_Queen Mary._

ESTHER.

A Jewish maiden, the niece of Mordecai, a Jewish resident at the court of Ahasuerus. Was chosen as queen in place of Vashti, who had refused to obey the king’s command. _Esther._

_Marriage of Geraint._

ETHELRED (the Second).

Called the ‘Unready’; king of Saxon England, son of Edgar and Elfrida; succeeded his half-brother Edmund the Martyr in 979. During his reign the Danes invaded England, and Ethelred defeated them at Watchet in Somersetshire and at Maldon, but his unmanly spirit submitted to pay a tribute to the Danes by a tax levied on his subjects known as the ‘Danegeld.’ In 1002 during the time of peace he ordered a general massacre of all the Danes in England, and Sweyn, king of Denmark, entered his kingdom and he fled to Normandy. Sweyn dying soon afterwards Ethelred returned and in 1014 he defeated Cnut, but in the following year Cnut renewed his attack, ravaged Mercia and Wessex, and was preparing to march on London when Ethelred died April 23, 1016.

_Harold._

ETTARRE.

A lady loved by sir Pelleas, but being so proud she scorned him, and said she would never return his love even if he died for her. But Pelleas promised to follow her from place to place, and never to leave her until she returned his love; but she sent her knights to fight with him and treated him very shamefully.

Thereon her wrath became a hate; and once,
A week beyond, while walking on the walls
With her three knights, she pointed downward, ‘Look,
He haunts me--I cannot breathe--besieges me:
Down! strike him! put my hate into your strokes,
And drive him from my walls.’ And down they went,
And Pelleas overthrew them one by one;
And from the tower above him cried Ettarre,
‘Bind him, and bring him in.’

Sir Gawain then promised to advocate his cause with the lady, but she played him false, for sir Pelleas coming to the pavilion outside Ettarre’s castle found them caressing each other.

Then was he ware of three pavilions rear’d
Above the bushes, gilden-peakt: in one,
Red after revel, droned her lurdane knights
Slumbering, and their three squires across their feet:
In one, their malice on the placid lip
Froz’n by sweet sleep, four of her damsels lay;
And in the third, the circlet of the jousts
Bound on her brow, were Gawain and Ettarre.

The Damosel of the Lake then came to Pelleas and bade him come forth with her in the country, and ‘she rejoiced sir Pelleas, and they lived together during their life days’ and the lady Ettarre died from sorrow.

_Pelleas and Ettarre._

EUROPA.

A beautiful maiden, daughter of Agenor, king of Phœnicia. While gathering flowers she was carried off to Crete by Zeus, disguised as a white bull.

Or sweet Europa’s mantle flew unclasp’d,
From oft her shoulder backward borne:
From one hand droop’d a crocus: one hand grasp’d
The mild bull’s golden horn.

She was worshipped in Crete under the name of Hellotis, and a festival called Hellotia was held in her honour, at which her bones were carried surrounded by wreaths of myrtle.

_Palace of Art._

EUROPE.

_Locksley Hall_;
_Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington_;
_Third of February_;
_To Rev. F. D. Maurice_;
_Defence of Lucknow_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Becket_;
_The Foresters_.

EUSTACE.

An artist--a very muscular and well-made person.

My Eustace might have sat for Hercules;
So muscular he spread, so broad of breast.

Along with an artist friend they went to see the gardener’s daughter. Eustace painted Juliet, fell in love with her, and after a year had passed married her.

_Gardener’s Daughter._

EVA.

Daughter of farmer Steer, and sister of Dora Steer. Under a promise of marriage, she was seduced by Philip Edgar, a wealthy gentleman. She ran away, leaving a letter to the effect that she would drown herself. At the news of her disgrace the old father worked himself into a fury which subsided into paralysis. After many years’ absence Edgar returned under the name of Harold, but on account of his beard passed unrecognized. Dobson, a farmer who was himself in love with Dora Steer, suspected him, but Edgar showed him a newspaper cutting of his father’s death, which he easily passed off as his own. Edgar made love to Dora, who was easily won, when news arrived that a lady had been run over in a neighbouring lane. The injured lady, who was nursed by Dora, was none other than Eva, who yearned for her father’s forgiveness, but the old man was too troubled with his disease to understand. Edgar and Eva eventually met, and Dora learned who her lover really was. At the sight of the meeting Eva fell dead, and over her sister’s dead body Dora cursed the man, who hoped by marrying her to make amends for Eva’s seduction.

_Promise of May._

EVANGEL.

= The Gospels.

Heaven-sweet Evangel, ever-living word,
Who whilome speaking to the South in Greek
About the soft Mediterranean shores,

_Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham._

EVANGELIST.

Behold a man raised up by Christ!
The rest remaineth unreveal’d;
He told it not; or something seal’d
The lips of that Evangelist.

= St. John.

_In Memoriam._

EVE.

_Day-Dream_;
_Maud_;
_Becket_.

EVELYN.

One of two sisters--the other being Edith. She married her sister’s former lover, but was quite unconscious of the fact, which was only made known to her after her sister’s death. The news caused some estrangement between husband and wife. During the second year of her married life she died.

_Sisters (Evelyn and Edith)._

EVERARD. EVERARD HALL.

A poet. While at college he wrote an epic about king Arthur, but thinking that

nothing new was said, or else
Something so said ’twas nothing--

destroyed it. His college friend, Francis Allen inquired later as to what had become of it. He replied that considering it of small value he had destroyed it.

‘these twelve books of mine
Were faint Homeric echoes, nothing-worth,
Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt.’

Francis had however, rescued the eleventh book from the hearth, and forthwith produced it

‘But I,’
Said Francis, ‘pick’d the eleventh from this hearth
And have it; keep a thing, its use will come.
I hoard it as a sugar-plum for Holmes.’

_The Epic_;
_Morte d’Arthur_.

EVERGREEN.

A plant that remains green all the year, as the laurel and the ivy.

_Enoch Arden_;
_Spiteful Letter_;
_Gareth and Lynette_.

EWE. EWE-LAMB.

A female sheep.

_The Princess_;
_Becket_.

EXCALIBUR.

King Arthur’s magic sword. It meant cut-steel and would cut through iron or steel; in poetic language, it is called a sword as its blade flashed like fire. It was given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake, and she was nine years in the shaping of it, sitting in the deeps upon the hidden bases of the hills.

Arthur and his enchanter Merlin rode one day by a broad lake, and
afar out in the midst of the lake an arm clad in white samite rose
from out of the water and held up a fair sword. Then came the Lady of
the Lake moving upon the water. ‘Enter into yonder barge,’ she said,
‘and row to the sword and take it and the scabbard.’

Tappan: _Heroes of the Middle Ages._

It was so bright in his enemies’ eyes, that it gave light equal to thirty torches. Tennyson in his _Coming of Arthur_ described it:

‘There likewise I beheld Excalibur
Before him at his crowning borne, the sword
That rose from out the bosom of the lake,
And Arthur row’d across and took it--rich
With jewels, elfin, Urim, on the hilt,
Bewildering heart and eye--the blade so bright
That men are blinded by it--

It was by this sword that Arthur overcame his enemies in battle. After receiving his wound in the last weird battle in the west, king Arthur commanded sir Bedivere to take the sword and return it to the Lady of the Lake.

But now delay not: take Excalibur,
And fling him far into the middle mere:
Watch what thou seëst, and lightly bring me word.’

Twice did sir Bedivere go to the pool and twice did his heart fail him, for instead of flinging the brand into the water he hid it. Returning to the dying king and being questioned as to what he had seen, replied:

‘I heard the ripple washing in the reeds,
And the wild water lapping on the crag.’

but the king detecting the knight’s deception threateningly commanded him to fulfil his task, whereupon the knight went to the lake, and seizing the sword threw it into the water.

But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm
Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,
And caught him by the hilt, and brandish’d him
Three times, and drew him under in the mere.

_Morte d’ Arthur_;
_Coming of Arthur_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Holy Grail_;
_Last Tournament_;
_Passing of Arthur_.

EXETER (Dean of).

_Queen Mary._

EYE.

A Castle.

My lord, the King demands three hundred marks,
Due from his castles of Beckhamstead and Eye
When thou whereof wast warden.

_Becket._

FAIR-HANDS.

According to Malory, a nickname given by sir Kay to sir Gareth when he was a kitchen-scullion at the court of king Arthur.

And since he hath no name, I shall give him a name that shall be
Beaumains, that is Fair-hands.

Malory: _Morte d’Arthur, Book VII. chap i._

Tennyson in his Gareth and Lynette makes sir Kay address sir Lancelot whilst referring to sir Gareth:

fair and fine, forsooth!
Sir Fine-face, Sir Fair-hands? but see thou to it
That thine own fineness, Lancelot, some fine day
Undo thee not--and leave my man to me.’

_Gareth and Lynette._

FALCON.

A bird of prey formerly trained to the pursuit of game.

_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Happy_;
_The Falcon_;
_Harold_.

FALCON, THE.

Name of a ship.

For a huge sea smote every soul from the decks of _The Falcon_ but
one.

_The Wreck._

FANNY.

The name of a song.

Fanny be the naäme i’ the song, but I swopt it fur _she_.

_Promise of May._

FATHER PHILIP.

= Philip Ray.

_Enoch Arden._

FAUN.

The symbol of a drunkard.

Arise and fly
The reeling Faun, the sensual feast;
Move upward, working out the beast,
And let the ape and tiger die.

_Lucretius_;
_In Memoriam_.

FAUNUS.

In Roman mythology the grandson of Saturn, and the god of fields and shepherds. Upon the introduction of Greek mythology Faunus was identified with Pan the protector of flocks and herds. Two festivals were held annually in his honour in the temple on the island in the Tiber, when the peasants brought their simple offerings.

‘But who was he, that in the garden snared
Picus and Faunus, rustic Gods?

_Lucretius._

FEDERIGO. FEDERIGO DEGLI ALBERIGHI.

An impoverished nobleman, in love with a wealthy widow, the lady Giovanna. She had a rival--his favourite falcon--for which the count had a strange affection, the bird at times being as dear to him as his mistress. The son of the lady Giovanna fell sick, and yearned for the count’s falcon. The lady paid a visit to the count at the luncheon hour, with the object of begging the bird from him; but the scanty provision of the larder being insufficient for the meal, the count ordered his foster-brother Filippo to kill the falcon and have it cooked for the lady. When the lunch was spread she could not eat on account of her anxiety for her request; but when she learned that her lover had killed his favourite bird in order to entertain her, she confessed her love for him, and happiness ensued.

_The Falcon._

FERDINAND.