So eastward where by Thames the Trinobants were set,To Trinovant their town ... That London now we term ...The Saxons ... their east kingdom called [Essex].Drayton,Polyolbion, xvi. (1613).
So eastward where by Thames the Trinobants were set,To Trinovant their town ... That London now we term ...The Saxons ... their east kingdom called [Essex].Drayton,Polyolbion, xvi. (1613).
So eastward where by Thames the Trinobants were set,To Trinovant their town ... That London now we term ...The Saxons ... their east kingdom called [Essex].Drayton,Polyolbion, xvi. (1613).
So eastward where by Thames the Trinobants were set,
To Trinovant their town ... That London now we term ...
The Saxons ... their east kingdom called [Essex].
Drayton,Polyolbion, xvi. (1613).
Trinquet, one of the seven attendants of Fortunio. His gift was that he could drink a river and be thirsty again. “Are yon always thirsty?” asked Fortunio. “No,” said the man, “only after eating salt meat or upon a wager.”--Comtesse D’Aunoy,Fairy Tales(“Fortunio,” 1682).
Trip to Scarborough(A), a comedy by Sheridan (1777), based onThe Relapse, by Vanbrugh (1697). Lord Foppington goes to Scarborough to marry Miss Hoyden, daughter of Sir Tunbelly Clumsy, but his lordship is not known personally to the knight and his daughter. Tom Fashion, younger brother of Lord Foppington, having been meanly treated by his elder brother, resolves to outwit him; so, passing himself off as Lord Foppington, he gets introduced to Sir Tunbelly, and marries Miss Hoyden before the rightful claimant appears. When at length Lord Foppington arrives he is treated as an impostor, till Tom Fashion explains the ruse. As his lordship behaves contumeliously to the knight, matters are easily arranged, Lord Foppington retires, and Sir Tunbelly accepts Tom Fashion as his son-in-law with good grace.
Tripe(1syl.), the nickname of Mrs. Hamilton, of Covent Garden Theatre (1730-1788).
Triple Alliance(The).
1. A treaty between Great Britain, Sweden, and the United Provinces, in 1668, for the purpose of checking the ambition of Louis XIV.
2. A treaty between George I. of England, Philip, duke of Orleans, regent of France, and the United Provinces, for the purpose of counteracting the plans of Alberoni, the Spanish minister, 1717.
Trippet(Beau), who “pawned his honor to Mrs. Trippet never to draw sword in any cause,” whatever might be the provocation. (SeeTremor.)
Mrs. Trippet, the beau’s wife, who “would dance for four and twenty hours together,” and play cards for twice that length of time.--Garrick,The Lying Valet(1740).
Tripping as an Omen.
When Julius Cæsar landed at Adrumētum, in Africa, he happened to trip and fall on his face. This would have been considered a fatal omen by his army, but, with admirable presence of mind, he exclaimed, “Thus take I possession of thee, O Africa!”
A similar story is told of Scipio. Upon his arrival in Africa, he also happened to trip, and, observing that his soldiers looked upon this as a bad omen, he clutched the earth with his two hands, and cried aloud, “Now, Africa, I hold thee in my grasp!”--Don Quixote, II. iv. 6.
When William the Conqueror leaped on shore at Bulverhythe, he fell on his face, and a great cry went forth that the omen was unlucky; but the duke exclaimed, “I take seisin of this land with both my hands!”
The same story is told of Napoleon in Egypt; of King Olaf, son of Harald, in Norway; of Junius Brutus, who, returning from the oracle, fell on the earth, and cried, “’Tis thus I kiss thee, mother Earth!”
When Captain Jean Cœurpreux tripped in dancing at the Tuileries, Napoleon III. held out his hand to help him up, and said, “Captain, this is the second time I have seen you fall. The first was by my sidein the field of Magenta.” Then, turning to the lady, he added, “Madam, Captain Cœurpreux is henceforth commandant of my Guards, and will never fall in duty or allegiance, I am persuaded.”
Trismegistus(“thrice greatest”), Hermês, the Egyptian philosopher, or Thoth, councillor of Osīris. He invented the art of writing in hieroglyphics, harmony, astrology, magic, the lute and lyre, and many other things.
Tris´sotin, abel esprit. Philaminte (3syl.), afemme savante, wishes him to marry her daughter, Henriette, but Henriette is in love with Clitandre. The difficulty is soon solved by the announcement that Henriette’s father is on the verge of bankruptcy, whereupon Trissotin makes his bow and retires.--Molière,Les Femmes Savantes(1672).
Trissotin is meant for the Abbé Crotin, who affected to be poet, gallant and preacher. His dramatic name was “Tricotin.”
Tristram(Sir), son of Sir Meliŏdas, king of Li´onês, and Elizabeth, his wife (daughter of Sir Mark, king of Cornwall). He was called Tristram (“sorrowful”) because his mother died in giving him birth. His father also died when Tristram was a mere lad (pt. ii. 1). He was knighted by his uncle, Mark (pt. ii. 5), and married Isondle Blanch Mains, daughter of Howell, king of Britain (Brittany); but he never loved her, nor would he live with her. His whole love was centered on his aunt, La Belle Isond, wife of King Mark, and this unhappy attachment was the cause of numberless troubles, and ultimately of his death. La Belle Isond, however, was quite as culpable as the knight, for she herself told him, “My measure of hate for Mark is as the measure of my love for thee;” and when she found out that her husband would not allow Sir Tristram to remain at Tintag´il Castle, she eloped with him, and lived three years at Joyous Guard, near Carlisle. At length she returned home, and Sir Tristram followed her. His death is variously related. Thus theHistory of Prince Arthursays:
When, by means of a treaty, Sir Tristram brought again La Belle Isond unto King Mark from Joyous Guard, the false traitor, King Mark, slew the noble knight as he sat harping before his lady, La Belle Isond, with a sharp-ground glaive, which he thrust into him from behind his back.--Pt. iii. 147 (1470).
Tennyson gives the tale thus: He says that Sir Tristram, dallying with his aunt, hung a ruby carcanet round her throat; and, as he kissed her neck:
Out of the dark, just as the lips had touched,Behind him rose a shadow and a shriek--“Marks way!” said Mark, and clove him thro’ the brain.Tennyson,Idylls(“The Last Tournament”).
Out of the dark, just as the lips had touched,Behind him rose a shadow and a shriek--“Marks way!” said Mark, and clove him thro’ the brain.Tennyson,Idylls(“The Last Tournament”).
Out of the dark, just as the lips had touched,Behind him rose a shadow and a shriek--“Marks way!” said Mark, and clove him thro’ the brain.Tennyson,Idylls(“The Last Tournament”).
Out of the dark, just as the lips had touched,
Behind him rose a shadow and a shriek--
“Marks way!” said Mark, and clove him thro’ the brain.
Tennyson,Idylls(“The Last Tournament”).
Another tale is this: Sir Tristram was severely wounded in Brittany, and sent a dying request to his aunt to come and see him. If she consented, a white flag was to be hoisted on the mast-head of her ship; if not, a black one. His wife told him the ship was in sight, displaying a black flag, at which words the strong man bowed his head and died. When his aunt came ashore and heard of his death, she flung herself on the body, and died also. The two were buried in one grave, and Mark planted over it a rose and a vine, which became so interwoven it was not possible to separate them.
⁂ Sir Launcelot, Sir Tristram and Sir Lamorake were the three bravest and best of the 150 knights of the Round Table, but were all equally guilty in their amours: Sir Launcelot with the queen; Sir Tristram with his aunt, King Mark’s wife;and Sir Lamorake with his aunt, King Lot’s wife.
Tristram’s Horse, Passetreûl, or Passe Brewell. It is called both, but one seems to be a clerical error.
(Passe Brewell is in Sir T. Malory’sHistory of Prince Arthur, ii. 68).
History of Sir Tristram or Tristan.The oldest story is by Gotfrit of Strasbourg, a minnesinger (twelfth century), entitledTristan and Isolde. It was continued by Ulrich of Turheim, by Heinrich of Freyburg, and others, to the extent of many thousand verses. The tale of Sir Tristram, derived from Welsh traditions, was versified by Thomas the Rhymer, of Erceldoune.
The second part of theHistory of Prince Arthur, compiled by Sir T. Malory, is almost exclusively confined to the adventures of Sir Tristram, as the third part is to the adventures of Sir Launcelot, and the quest of the Holy Graal (1470).
Matthew Arnold has a poem entitledTristram; and R. Wagner, in 1865, produced his opera ofTristan and Isolde.
See Michel,Tristan; Recueil de ce qui reste des Poèmes relatifs à ses Aventures(1835).
Tristrem l’Hermite, provost-marshal of France, in the reign of Louis XI. Introduced by Sir W. Scott inQuentin Durward(1823), and inAnne of Geierstein(1829).
Tritheim(J), chronicler and theologian of Treves, elected abbot of Spanheim at the age of 22 years. He tried to reform the monks, but produced a revolt, and resigned his office. He was then appointed abbot of Würzburg (1462-1516).
Old Tritheim, busied with his class the while.R. Browning,Paracelsus, i. (1836).
Old Tritheim, busied with his class the while.R. Browning,Paracelsus, i. (1836).
Old Tritheim, busied with his class the while.R. Browning,Paracelsus, i. (1836).
Old Tritheim, busied with his class the while.
R. Browning,Paracelsus, i. (1836).
Triton, the sea-trumpeter. He blows through a shell to rouse or allay the sea. A post-Hesiodic fable.
Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea,Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.Wordsworth.
Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea,Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.Wordsworth.
Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea,Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.Wordsworth.
Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea,
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Wordsworth.
Triumvirate(The), in English history: The duke of Marlborough, controlling foreign affairs, Lord Godolphin, controlling council and parliament, and the duchess of Marlborough, controlling the court and queen.
Triumvirate of England, (The): Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate, poets.
Triumvirate of Italian Poets(The): Dantê, Boccaccio, and Petrarch.
Boccaccio wrote poetry, without doubt, but is now chiefly known as “The Father of Italian Prose.” These three are more correctly called the “Trecentisti” (q.v.).
Triv´ia, Diana; so called because she had three faces, Luna in Heaven, Diana on earth, and Hecate in Hell.
The noble Brutus went wise Trivia to inquire,To show them where the stock of ancient Troy to place.M. Drayton,Polyolbion, i. (1612).
The noble Brutus went wise Trivia to inquire,To show them where the stock of ancient Troy to place.M. Drayton,Polyolbion, i. (1612).
The noble Brutus went wise Trivia to inquire,To show them where the stock of ancient Troy to place.M. Drayton,Polyolbion, i. (1612).
The noble Brutus went wise Trivia to inquire,
To show them where the stock of ancient Troy to place.
M. Drayton,Polyolbion, i. (1612).
Trog´lodytes(3or4syl.). According to Pliny (Nat. Hist., v. 8), the Troglodytes lived in caves under ground, and fed on serpents. In modern parlance, we call those who live so secluded as not to be informed of the current events of the day,troglodytes. Longfellow callsantsby the same name.
[Thou the] nomadic tribes of antsDost persecute and overwhelmThese hapless troglodytes of thy realm.Longfellow,To a Child.
[Thou the] nomadic tribes of antsDost persecute and overwhelmThese hapless troglodytes of thy realm.Longfellow,To a Child.
[Thou the] nomadic tribes of antsDost persecute and overwhelmThese hapless troglodytes of thy realm.Longfellow,To a Child.
[Thou the] nomadic tribes of ants
Dost persecute and overwhelm
These hapless troglodytes of thy realm.
Longfellow,To a Child.
Troglody´tes(4syl.), one of the mouseheroes in the battle of the frogs and mice. He slew Pelĭon, and was slain by Lymnoc´haris.
The strong Lymnocharis, who viewed with ireA victor triumph, and a friend expire;With heaving arms, a rocky fragment caught,And fiercely flung where Troglodytês fought ...Full on his sinewy neck the fragment fell,And o’er his eyelids, clouds eternal dwell.Parnell,Battle of the Frogs and Mice(about 1712).
The strong Lymnocharis, who viewed with ireA victor triumph, and a friend expire;With heaving arms, a rocky fragment caught,And fiercely flung where Troglodytês fought ...Full on his sinewy neck the fragment fell,And o’er his eyelids, clouds eternal dwell.Parnell,Battle of the Frogs and Mice(about 1712).
The strong Lymnocharis, who viewed with ireA victor triumph, and a friend expire;With heaving arms, a rocky fragment caught,And fiercely flung where Troglodytês fought ...Full on his sinewy neck the fragment fell,And o’er his eyelids, clouds eternal dwell.Parnell,Battle of the Frogs and Mice(about 1712).
The strong Lymnocharis, who viewed with ire
A victor triumph, and a friend expire;
With heaving arms, a rocky fragment caught,
And fiercely flung where Troglodytês fought ...
Full on his sinewy neck the fragment fell,
And o’er his eyelids, clouds eternal dwell.
Parnell,Battle of the Frogs and Mice(about 1712).
Troil(Magnus), the old udaller of Zetland.
Brenda Troil, the udaller’s younger daughter. She marries Mordaunt Mertoun.
Minna Troil, the udaller’s elder daughter. In love with the pirate.--Sir W. Scott,The Pirate(time, William III.).
(A udaller is one who holds his lands by allodial tenure.)
Tro´ilus(3syl.), a son of Priam, king of Troy. In the picture described by Virgil (Æneid, i. 474-478), he is represented as having thrown down his arms and fleeing in his chariot, not equal to meeting Achilles; he is pierced with a lance, and, having fallen backwards, still holding the reins, the lance with which he is transfixed “scratches the sand over which it trails.”
In theTroilus and Creseideof Chaucer, and theTroilus and Cressidaof Shakespeare, we have a story unknown to classic fiction. Chaucer pretends to take it from Lollius, but who Lollius was, has never been discovered. In this story Troilus falls in love with Cressid, daughter of the priest Chalchas, and Pandărus is employed as a go-between. After Troilus has obtained a promise of marriage from the priest’s daughter, an exchange of prisoners is arranged, and Cressid, falling to the lot of Diomed, prefers her new master to her Trojan lover.
Chaucer’sTroilus and Creseideis not one of theCanterbury Tales, but quite an independent one, in five books. It contains 8246 lines, nearly 3000 of which are borrowed from theFilostratoof Boccaccio.
Trois Chapitres(Les), orThe Three Chapters, three theological works on the “Incarnation of Christ and His dual nature.” The authors of these “chapters” are Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, and Ibas of Edessa. The work was condemned in 553 as heretical.
Trois Echelles, executioner.--Sir W. Scott,Quentin DurwardandAnne of Geierstein(time Edward IV.).
Trojan, a good boon companion, a plucky fellow or man of spirit. Gadshill says, “There are other Trojans [men of spirit] that ... for sport sake are content to do the profession [of Thieving] some grace.” So inLove’s Labor’s Lost“Unless you play the honest Trojan, the poor wench is cast away” (unless you are a man of sufficient spirit to act honestly, the girl is ruined).
“He is a regular Trojan,” means he isun brave homme, a capital fellow.
Trompart, a lazy but wily-witted knave, grown old in cunning. He accompanied Braggadoccio as his squire (bk. ii. 3), but took to his heels when Talus shaved the master, “reft his shield,” blotted out his arms, and broke his sword in twain. Being overtaken, Talus gives him a sound drubbing (bk. v. 3).--Spenser,Faëry Queen(1590-6).
Trondjem’s Cattle(Remember the bishop of),i.e., look sharp after your property; take heed, or you will suffer for it. The story is, that a certain bishop ofTrondjem [Tron´.yem] lost his cattle by the herdsmen taking his eyes off them to look at an elk. Now this elk was a spirit, and when the herdsman looked at the cattle again they were no bigger than mice; again he turned towards the elk, in order to understand the mystery, and while he did so, the cattle all vanished through a crevice into the earth.--Miss Martineau,Feats on the Fiord(1839).
Tropho´nios, the architect of the temple of Apollo, at Delphi. After death he was worshipped, and had a famous cave near Lebadia, called “The Oracle of Trophonios.”
The month of this cave was three yards high and two wide. Those who consulted the oracle had to fast several days, and then to descend a steep ladder till they reached a narrow gullet. They were then seized by the feet, and dragged violently to the bottom of the cave, where they were assailed by the most unearthly noises, howlings, shrieks, bellowings, with lurid lights and sudden glares, in the midst of which uproar and phantasmagoria the oracle was pronounced. The votaries were then seized unexpectedly by the feet, and thrust out of the cave without ceremony. If any resisted, or attempted to enter in any other way, he was instantly murdered.--Plutarch,Lives.
Trotley(Sir John), an old-fashioned country gentleman, who actually prefers the obsolete English notions of domestic life, fidelity to wives and husbands, modesty in maids, and constancy in lovers, to the foreign free and easy manners which allow married people unlimited freedom, and consider licentiousnessbon ton.--Garrick,Bon Ton(1776). (See PRIORY.)
Trotter(Job), servant to Alfred Jingle. A sly, canting rascal, who has at least the virtue of fidelity to his master. Mr. Pickwick’s generosity touches his heart, and he shows a sincere gratitude to his benefactor.--C. Dickens,The Pickwick Papers(1836).
Trotter(Nelly) fishwoman at old St. Ronan’s.--Sir W. Scott,St. Ronan’s Well(time, George III.).
Trotters, the Punch and Judy showman; a little, good-natured, unsuspicious man, very unlike his misanthropic companion, Thomas Codlin, who played the panpipes, and collected the money.
His real name was Harris, but it had gradually merged into Trotters, with the prefatory adjective “Short,” by reason of the small size of his legs. Short Trotters, however, being a compound name, inconvenient in friendly dialogue, he was called either Trotters or Short, and never Short Trotters, except on occasions of ceremony.--C. Dickens,The Old Curiosity Shop, xvii. (1840).
Trotty, the sobriquet of Toby Veck, ticket-porter and jobman.
They called him Trotty from his pace, which meant speed, if it didn’t make it. He could have walked faster, perhaps; most likely; but rob him of his trot, and Toby would have taken to his bed and died. It bespattered him with mud in dirty weather; it cost him a world of trouble; he could have walked with infinitely greater ease; but that was one reason for his clinging to his trot so tenaciously. A weak, small, spare old man; he was a very Herculês, this Toby, in his good intentions.--C. Dickens,The Chimes, i. (1844).
Trotwood(Betsey), usually called “Miss Betsey,” great aunt of David Copperfield. Her idiosyncrasy was donkeys. A dozen times a day would she rush on the green before her house to drive off the donkeys, and donkey-boys. She was a most kind-hearted, worthy woman, who concealed her tenderness of heart under a snappish austerity of manner. Miss Betsey was the true friend of David Copperfield. She married in her young days a handsome man, who ill-used her, and ran away, butpreyed on her for money till he died.--C. Dickens,David Copperfield(1849).
Trouil´logan, a philosopher, whose advice was, “Do as you like.” Panurge asked the sage if he advised him to marry. “Yes,” said Trouillogan. “What say you?” asked the prince. “Let it alone,” replied the sage. “Which would you advise?” inquired the prince. “Neither,” said the sage. “Neither?” cried Panurge; “that cannot be.” “Then both,” replied Trouillogan. Panurge then consulted several others, and at last the oracle of the Holy Bottle.--Rabelais,Pantagruel, iii. 35 (1545).
Molière has introduced this joke in hisMarriage Forcé(1664). Sganarelle asks his friend Géronimo, if he would advise him to marry, and he answers “No.” “But,” says the old man, “I like the young woman.” “Then marry her, by all means.” “That is your advice?” says Sganarelle. “My advice is, do as you like,” says the friend. Sganarelle next consults two philosophers, then some gypsies, then declines to marry, and is at last compelled to do so,nolens volens.
Trovato´re(4syl.), or “The Troubadour” in Manrico, the supposed son of Azuce´na, the gypsy, but in reality, the son of Garzia (brother of the conte di Luna). The Princess Leono´ra falls in love with the troubadour, but the count, entertaining a base passion for her, is about to put Manrico to death, when Leonora intercedes on his behalf, and promises to give herself to him, if he will spare her lover. The count consents; but while he goes to release his captive Leonora kills herself by sucking poison from a ring. When Manrico discovers this sad calamity, he dies also.--Verdi,Il Trovatore(1853).
(This opera is based on the drama ofGargia Guttierez, a fifteenth century story.)
Troxartas(3syl.), king of the mice, and father of Psycarpax, who was drowned. The word means “bread-eater.”
Fix their counsel ...Where great Troxartas crowned in glory reigns ...Psycarpax’ father, father now no more!Parnell,Battle of the Frogs and Mice, i. (about 1712).
Fix their counsel ...Where great Troxartas crowned in glory reigns ...Psycarpax’ father, father now no more!Parnell,Battle of the Frogs and Mice, i. (about 1712).
Fix their counsel ...Where great Troxartas crowned in glory reigns ...Psycarpax’ father, father now no more!Parnell,Battle of the Frogs and Mice, i. (about 1712).
Fix their counsel ...
Where great Troxartas crowned in glory reigns ...
Psycarpax’ father, father now no more!
Parnell,Battle of the Frogs and Mice, i. (about 1712).
Trudge, inLove in a Bottle, by Farquhar (1698).
True Thomas, Thomas the Rhymer. So called from his prophecies, the most noted of which was his prediction of the death of Alexander III. of Scotland, made to the earl of March. It is recorded in theScotichronĭconof Fordun (1430).
Trueworth, brother of Lydia, and friend of Sir William Fondlove.--S. Knowles,The Love-Chase(1837).
Trull(Dolly). Captain Macheath says of her, “She is always so taken up with stealing hearts, that she does not allow herself time to steal anything else” (act ii. 1).--Gay,The Beggar’s Opera(1727).
Trulla, the daughter of James Spenser, a Quaker. She was first dishonored by her father, and then by Simeon Wait (orMagna´no), the tinker.
He Trulla loved, Trulla more brightThan burnished armor of her knight,A bold virago, stout and tallAs Joan of France or English Mall.S. Butler,Hudibras, i. 2 (1663).
He Trulla loved, Trulla more brightThan burnished armor of her knight,A bold virago, stout and tallAs Joan of France or English Mall.S. Butler,Hudibras, i. 2 (1663).
He Trulla loved, Trulla more brightThan burnished armor of her knight,A bold virago, stout and tallAs Joan of France or English Mall.S. Butler,Hudibras, i. 2 (1663).
He Trulla loved, Trulla more bright
Than burnished armor of her knight,
A bold virago, stout and tall
As Joan of France or English Mall.
S. Butler,Hudibras, i. 2 (1663).
Trul´liber(Parson), a fat clergyman; ignorant, selfish, and slothful.--Fielding,The Adventures of Joseph Andrews(1742).
Parson Barnabas, Parson Trulliber, Sir Wilful Witwould, Sir Francis Wronghead, Squire Western, Squire Sullen; such were the people who composed the main strength of the Tory party for sixty years after the Revolution.--Macaulay.
⁂ “Sir Wilful Witwould,” inThe Way of the World, by Congreve; “Sir Francis Wronghead,” inThe Provoked Husband, by C. Cibber; “Squire Western,” inTom Jones, by Fielding; “Squire Sullen,” inThe Beaux’ Stratagem, by Farquhar.
Trunnion(Commodore Hawser), a one-eyed naval veteran, who has retired from the service in consequence of injuries received in engagements; but he still keeps garrison in his own house, which is defended with drawbridge and ditch. He sleeps in a hammock, and makes his servants sleep in hammocks, as on board ship, takes his turn on watch, and indulges his naval tastes in various other ways. Lieutenant Jack Hatchway is his companion. When he went to be married, he rode on a hunter which he steered like a ship, according to the compass, tacking about, that he might not “go right in the wind’s eye.”--T. Smollett,The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle(1750).
It is vain to criticize the manœuvre of Trunnion, tacking his way to church on his wedding day, in consequence of a head wind.--Encyc. Brit., Art. “Romance.”
⁂ Dickens has imitated this in Wemmick’s house, which had flag and drawbridge, fortress and gun in miniature; but the conceit is more suited to “a naval veteran” than a lawyer’s clerk. (SeeWemmick.)
Truscott(Jack), officer in U. S. Army, and, according to his wife, “gallant, noble, gentle, tender, true, faithful--and--um--sweet!” Truscott’s character, said to be drawn from life, is one of the finest in Captain Charles King’s series of military novels. Truscott leads the rescuing party to the cottonwood copse where a handful of U. S. soldiers are penned in by Indians.
“More shots and yells, a trumpet-blare, and then--then, ringing like clarion over the turmoil of the fight, echoing far across the still valley, the sound of a glorious voice shouting the well-known words of command,--Left--front--into line--gallop.” And Dana can hold in no longer. Almost sobbing, he cries aloud--
“Jack Truscott, by all that is glorious! I’d know the voice among a million!” Who in the ----th would not? Who in the old regiment had not leaped at its summons, time and again?--Charles King,Marion’s Faith(1886).
Trusty(Mrs.), landlady of the Queen’s Arms, Romford. Motherly, most kind-hearted, a capital caterer, whose ale was noted. Bess, “the beggar’s daughter,” took refuge with her, and was most kindly treated. Mrs. Trusty wished her son, Ralph, to take Bess to wife, but Bess had given her heart to Wilford, the son of Lord Woodville, her cousin.--S. Knowles,The Beggar of Bethnal Green(1834).
Tryamour(Sir), the hero of an old metrical novel, and the model of all knightly virtues.
Try´anon, daughter of the fairy king who lived on the island of Ole´ron. “She was as white as a lily in May, or snow that snoweth on a winter’s day,” and her “haire shone as goldê wire.” This paragon of beauty married Sir Launfal, King Arthur’s steward, whom she carried off to “Oliroun, her jolif isle.”--Thomas Chestre,Sir Launfal(fifteenth century).
Trygon, a poisonous fish. Ulysses was accidentally killed by his son Telegŏnos with an arrow pointed with trygon-bone.
The lord of Ithăca,Struck by the poisonous trygon’s bone expired.West,Triumphs of the Gout(“Lucian” 1750).
The lord of Ithăca,Struck by the poisonous trygon’s bone expired.West,Triumphs of the Gout(“Lucian” 1750).
The lord of Ithăca,Struck by the poisonous trygon’s bone expired.West,Triumphs of the Gout(“Lucian” 1750).
The lord of Ithăca,
Struck by the poisonous trygon’s bone expired.
West,Triumphs of the Gout(“Lucian” 1750).
Tryphon, the sea-god’s physician.
They send in haste for Tryphon, to applySalves to his wounds, and medicines of might;For Tryphon of sea-god’s the sovereign leech is hight.Spenser,Faëry Queen, iii. 4 (1590).
They send in haste for Tryphon, to applySalves to his wounds, and medicines of might;For Tryphon of sea-god’s the sovereign leech is hight.Spenser,Faëry Queen, iii. 4 (1590).
They send in haste for Tryphon, to applySalves to his wounds, and medicines of might;For Tryphon of sea-god’s the sovereign leech is hight.Spenser,Faëry Queen, iii. 4 (1590).
They send in haste for Tryphon, to apply
Salves to his wounds, and medicines of might;
For Tryphon of sea-god’s the sovereign leech is hight.
Spenser,Faëry Queen, iii. 4 (1590).
Tubal, a wealthy Jew, the friend of Shylock.--Shakespeare,The Merchant of Venice(a drama, 1598).
Tuck, a long, narrow sword (Gaelictuca, Welshtwca, Italianstocco, Frenchestoc)estoc). InHamletthe word “tuck” is erroneously printedstuckin Malone’s edition.
If he by chance escape your venomed tuck,Our purpose may hold there.Shakespeare,Hamlet, act iv. sc. 7.
If he by chance escape your venomed tuck,Our purpose may hold there.Shakespeare,Hamlet, act iv. sc. 7.
If he by chance escape your venomed tuck,Our purpose may hold there.Shakespeare,Hamlet, act iv. sc. 7.
If he by chance escape your venomed tuck,
Our purpose may hold there.
Shakespeare,Hamlet, act iv. sc. 7.
Tuck, (Friar), the “curtal friar of Fountain’s Abbey,” was the father confessor of Robin Hood. He is represented as a sleek-headed, pudgy, paunchy, pugnacious clerical Falstaff, very fat and self-indulgent, very humorous, and somewhat coarse. His dress was a russet habit of the Franciscan order, a red corded girdle with gold tassel, red stockings, and a wallet.
Sir Walter Scott, in hisIvanhoe, calls him the holy clerk of Copmanhurst, and describes him as a “large, strong-built man in a sackcloth gown and hood, girt with a rope of rushes.” He had a round, bullet head, and his close-shaven crown was edged with thick, stiff, curly black hair. His countenance was bluff and jovial, eyebrows black and bushy, forehead well-turned, cheeks round and ruddy, beard long, curly and black, form brawny (ch. xv.).
In the May-day morris-dance the friar is introduced in full clerical tonsure, with the chaplet of white and red beads in his right hand, a corded girdle about his waist, and a russet robe of the Franciscan order. His stockings red, his girdle red, ornamented with gold twist and a golden tassel. At his girdle hung a wallet for the reception of provisions, for “Walleteers” had no other food but what they received from begging. Friar Tuck was chaplain to Robin Hood, the May-king. (SeeMorris-Dance.)
In this our spacious isle, I think there is not oneBut he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John;Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made,In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws and their trade.Drayton,Polyolbion, xxvi. (1622).
In this our spacious isle, I think there is not oneBut he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John;Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made,In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws and their trade.Drayton,Polyolbion, xxvi. (1622).
In this our spacious isle, I think there is not oneBut he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John;Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made,In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws and their trade.Drayton,Polyolbion, xxvi. (1622).
In this our spacious isle, I think there is not one
But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John;
Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made,
In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws and their trade.
Drayton,Polyolbion, xxvi. (1622).
Tud(Morgan), chief physician of King Arthur.--The Mabinogion(“Geraint,” twelfth century).
Tug(Tom), the waterman, a straightforward, honest young man, who loved Wilhelmi´na, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bundle, and, when he won the waterman’s badge in rowing, he won the consent of “the gardener’s daughter” to become his loving and faithful wife.--C. Dibdin,The Waterman(1774).
Tukely, the lover of Sophia. As Sophia has a partiality for the Hon. Mr. Daffodil, “the male coquette,” Tukely dresses in woman’s clothes, makes an appointment with Daffodil, and gets him to slander Sophia and other ladies, concealed among the trees. They thus hear his slanders, and, presenting themselves before him, laugh him to scorn.--Garrick,The Male Coquette(1758).
Tulk´inghorn(Mr.), attorney-at-lawand legal adviser of the Dedlocks. Very silent and perfectly self-contained, but, knowing Lady Dedlock’s secret, he is like the sword of Dam´oclês over her head, and she lives in ceaseless dread of him.--C. Dickens,Bleak House(1852).
Tullia, wicked daughter of Servius Tullius, king of Rome. She conspired with her paramour to compass her father’s death, and drove over his dead body on her way to greet her accomplice as king.
Tulliver(Mr.), honest, irascible miller, whose love for “the little wench,” his daughter, is the gentlest feeling of his nature. His pride is hurt by financial disaster; he becomes a hireling of the man he hates; his fortunes are redeemed by his son, but he dies soon afterward.
Tulliver(Mrs.), a weak, garrulous woman, vain of her “Dodson blood.”
Tulliver(Maggie), fine, upright, imaginative, affectionate girl, understood by few, and passionately loved by two men. She resists her love for her cousin’s almost betrothed, and suffers the loss of reputation patiently. Tom Tulliver, her brother, is the sternest of her censors. The two are drowned together in a river-flood.--George Eliot,The Mill on the Floss.
Tully, Marcus Tullius Cicero, the great Roman orator (B.C.106-43). He was proscribed by Antony, one of the triumvirate, and his head and hands, being cut off, were nailed, by the orders of Antony, to the Rostra of Rome.
Ye fond adorers of departed fame,Who warm at Scipio’s worth or Tully’s name.Campbell,Pleasures of Hope, i. (1799).
Ye fond adorers of departed fame,Who warm at Scipio’s worth or Tully’s name.Campbell,Pleasures of Hope, i. (1799).
Ye fond adorers of departed fame,Who warm at Scipio’s worth or Tully’s name.Campbell,Pleasures of Hope, i. (1799).
Ye fond adorers of departed fame,
Who warm at Scipio’s worth or Tully’s name.
Campbell,Pleasures of Hope, i. (1799).
The Judas who betrayed Tully to the sicarii was a cobbler. The man who murdered him was named Herennius.
Tungay, the one-legged man at Salem House.
He generally acted, with his strong voice, as Mr. Creakle’s interpreter to the boys.--C. Dickens,David Copperfield, ii. (1849).
Tunstall(Frank), one of the apprentices of David Ramsay, the watchmaker.--Sir W. Scott,The Fortunes of Nigel(time, James I.).
Tupman(Tracy), M.P.C., a sleek, fat young man, of very amorous disposition. He falls in love with every pretty girl he sees, and is, consequently, always getting into trouble.--C. Dickens,The Pickwick Papers(1836).
Turbulent School of Fiction(The), a school of German romance writers, who returned to the feudal ages, and wrote between 1780 and 1800, in the style of Mrs. Radcliffe. The best known are Cramer, Spiers, Schlenkert, and Veit Weber.
Turcaret, a comedy by Lesage (1708), in which the farmers-general of France are gibbeted unmercifully. He is a coarse, illiterate man, who has grown rich by his trade. Any one who has risen from nothing to great wealth, and has no merit beyond money-making, is called a Turcaret.
Turcos, native Algerian infantry, officered by Frenchmen. The cavalry are calledSpahis.
Turell(Jane), a fair Puritan, whose early precocity and mature accomplishments are related by her husband. Before she was four years old she “could say the Assembly’s Catechism, many of thePsalms, some hundred lines of the best poetry, read distinctly, and make pertinent remarks on many things she read.” In later years she fulfilled the promise thus given of intellectual acquirements, while “her innocence, modesty, ingenuity and devotion charmed all into admiration of her.”--Ebenezer Turell,Memoirs of the Pious and Ingenious Mrs. Jane Turell(1735).
Turk Gregory, Gregory VII. (Hildebrand); so called for his furious raid upon royal prerogatives, especially his contest with the emperor [of Germany] on the subject of investiture. In 1075, he summoned the emperor Henry IV. to Rome; the emperor refused to obey the summons, the pope excommunicated him, and absolved all his subjects from their allegiance; he next declared Henry dethroned, and elected a new kaiser, but Henry, finding resistance in vain, begged to be reconciled to the pope. He was now commanded, in the midst of a severe winter, to present himself, with Bertha, his wife, and their infant son, at the castle of Canossa, in Lombardy; and here they had to stand three days in the piercing cold, before the pope would condescend to see him, but at last the proud prelate removed the excommunication, and Henry was restored to his throne.
Turkish Spy(The). A once popular romance relating the adventures of Mahmut, a Turk who lived forty-five years undiscovered in Paris, unfolding the intrigues of the Christian courts, between 1637 and 1682. The author of this romance is Giovanni Paolo Mara´na, and he makes it the medium of an historical novel of the period (1684).
Turkomans, a corruption ofTurk-imâms(“Turks of the true faith”). The first chief of the Turks who embraced Islam, called his people so to distinguish them from the Turks who had not embraced that faith.
Turnbull(Michael), the Douglas’s dark huntsman.--Sir W. Scott,Castle Dangerous(time, Henry I.).
Turnbull(Mr. Thomas), also called “Tom Turnpenny,” a canting smuggler and school-master.--Sir W. Scott,Redgauntlet(time(time, George III.).
Turnip-Hoer, George I. So called because, when he first came over to England, he proposed planting St. James’s Park with turnips (1660, 1714-1727).
Turnpenny(Mr.), banker at Marchthorn.--Sir W. Scott,St. Ronan’s Well(time, George III.).
Turnpenny(Tom), also called “Thomas Turnbull,” a canting smuggler and school-master.--Sir W. Scott,Redgauntlet(time, George III.).
Turntippit(Old lord), one of the privy council in the reign of William III.--Sir W. Scott,Bride of Lammermoor(1819).
Turon, the son of Brute’s sister, slew 600 Aquitanians with his own hand in one single fight.
Where Turon, ... Brute’s sister’s valiant son ...Six hundred slew outright thro’ his peculiar strength;By multitudes of men, yet overpressed at length.His noble uncle there, to his immortal nameThe city Turon [Tours] built, and well endowed the same.Drayton,Polyolbion, i.(1612)(1612).
Where Turon, ... Brute’s sister’s valiant son ...Six hundred slew outright thro’ his peculiar strength;By multitudes of men, yet overpressed at length.His noble uncle there, to his immortal nameThe city Turon [Tours] built, and well endowed the same.Drayton,Polyolbion, i.(1612)(1612).
Where Turon, ... Brute’s sister’s valiant son ...Six hundred slew outright thro’ his peculiar strength;By multitudes of men, yet overpressed at length.His noble uncle there, to his immortal nameThe city Turon [Tours] built, and well endowed the same.Drayton,Polyolbion, i.(1612)(1612).
Where Turon, ... Brute’s sister’s valiant son ...
Six hundred slew outright thro’ his peculiar strength;
By multitudes of men, yet overpressed at length.
His noble uncle there, to his immortal name
The city Turon [Tours] built, and well endowed the same.
Drayton,Polyolbion, i.(1612)(1612).
Turpin, a churlish knight, who refuseshospitality to Sir Calepine and Serēna, although solicited to do so by his wife, Blanĭda (bk. vi. 3). Serena told Prince Arthur of this discourtesy, and the prince, after chastising Turpin, unknighted him, and prohibited him from bearing arms ever after (bk. vi. 7). The disgraced churl now vowed revenge; so off he starts, and seeing two knights, complains to them of the wrongs done to himself and his dame by “a recreant knight,” whom he points out to them. The two champions instantly challenge the prince “as a foul woman-wronger,” and defy him to combat. One of the two champions is soon slain and the other overthrown, but is spared on craving his life. The survivor now returns to Turpin, to relate his misadventure, and when they reach the dead body see Arthur asleep. Turpin proposes to kill him, but Arthur starts up and hangs the rascal on a tree (bk. vi. 7).--Spenser,Faëry Queen(1596).
Turpin, “archbishop of Rheims,” the hypothetical author of aChronicle, purporting to be a history of Charlemagne’s Spanish adventures in 777, by a contemporary. This fiction was declared authentic and genuine by Pope Calixtus II. in 1122, but it is now generally attributed to a canon of Barcelona in the eleventh century.
The tale says that Charlemagne went to Spain in 777 to defend one of his allies from the aggressions of a neighboring prince. Having conquered Navarre and Aragon he returned to France. He then crossed the Pyrenees, and invested Pampeluna for three months, but without success. He tried the effect of prayer, and the walls, like those of Jericho, fell down of their own accord. Those Saracens who consented to be baptized he spared, but the rest were put to the sword. Being master of Pampeluna, the hero visited the sarcophagus of James; and Turpin, who accompanied him, baptized most of the neighborhood. Charlemagne then led back his army over the Pyrenees, the rear being under the command of Roland. The main army reached France in safety, but 50,000 Saracens fell on the rear, and none escaped.
Turpin(Dick), a noted highwayman, executed at York (1739).
Ainsworth has introduced intoRookwoodTurpin’s famous ride to York on his steed, Black Bess. It is said that Maginn really wrote this powerful description (1834).
Turpin(The French Dick) is Cartouche, an eighteenth century highwayman. W. H. Ainsworth made him the hero of a romance (1841).
Tur´quine(Sir) had sixty-four of King Arthur’s knights in prison, all of whom he had vanquished by his own hand. He hated Sir Launcelot, because he had slain his brother, Sir Car´ados, at the Dolorous Tower. Sir Launcelot challenged Sir Turquine to a trial of strength, and slew him, after which he liberated the captive knights.--Sir T. Malory,History of Prince Arthur, i. 108-110 (1470).
Turquoise(2syl.), a blue material found in Persia, the exact nature of which is not known. Sundry virtues are attached to it: (1) It indicates by its hue the state of the wearer’s health; (2) it indicates by its change of lustre if any peril awaits the wearer; (3) it removes animosity between the giver and the receiver; (4) it is a potent love-charm, and hence Leah gave a turquoise ring to Shylock “when he was a bachelor,” in order to make him propose to her.
Tur´veydrop(Mr.), a selfish, self-indulgent, conceited dancing-master, who imposes on the world by his majestic appearance and elaborate toilette. He lives on the earnings of his son (named Prince, after the prince regent), who reveres him as a perfect model of “deportment.”--C. Dickens,Bleak House(1852).
Tuscan Poet(The), Ludovico Ariosto, born at Reggio, in Modena (1474-1533). Noted for his poem entitledOrlando Furioso.
The Tuscan poet doth advanceThe frantic paladin of France.Drayton,Nymphidia(1563-1631).
The Tuscan poet doth advanceThe frantic paladin of France.Drayton,Nymphidia(1563-1631).
The Tuscan poet doth advanceThe frantic paladin of France.Drayton,Nymphidia(1563-1631).
The Tuscan poet doth advance
The frantic paladin of France.
Drayton,Nymphidia(1563-1631).
Tutivillus, the demon who collects all the fragments of words omitted, mutilated, or mispronounced by priests in the performance of religious services, and stores them up in that “bottomless” pit which is “paved with good intentions.”--Langland,Visions of Piers Plowman, 547 (1362); and theTownley Mysteries, 310, 319, etc.
Twangdillo, the fiddler, in Somerville’sHobbinol, a burlesque poem in three cantos. Twangdillo had lost one leg and one eye by a stroke of lightning on the banks of the Ister, but was still merry-hearted.