book of Spenser's _Faëry Queen_. The model of this character was sir
Philip Sidney. Sir Calidore (3 _syl._) starts in quest of the Blatant
Beast, which had escaped from sir Artegal (bk. v. 12). He first
compels the lady Bria´na to discontinue her discourteous toll of "the
locks of ladies and the beards of knights" (canto 1). Sir Calidore
falls in love with Pastorella, a shepherdess, dresses like a shepherd,
and assists his lady-love in keeping sheep. Pastorella being taken
captive by brigands, sir Calidore rescues her, and leaves her at
Belgard Castle to be taken care of, while he goes in quest of the
Blatant Beast. He finds the monster after a time, by the havoc it had
made with religious houses, and after an obstinate fight succeeds in
muzzling it, and dragging it in chains after him, but it got loose
again, as it did before (canto 12).--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, vi.
(1596).
Sir Gawain was the "Calidore" of the Round
Table.--Southey.
[Illustration] "Pastorella" is Frances Walsingham (daughter of sir
Francis), whom sir Philip Sidney married. After the death of sir
Philip she married the earl of Essex. The "Blatant Beast" is what we
now call "Mrs. Grundy."
CALIG´ORANT, an Egyptian giant and cannibal, who used to entrap
travellers with an invisible net. It was the very same net that Vulcan
made to catch Mars and Venus with. Mercury stole it for the purpose of
entrapping Chloris, and left it in the temple of Anu´bis, whence it
was stolen by Caligorant. One day Astolpho, by a blast of his magic
horn, so frightened the giant that he got entangled in his own net,
and being made captive was despoiled of it.--Ariosto, _Orlando
Furioso_ (1516).
CALI´NO, a famous French utterer of bulls.
CALIP´OLIS, in _The Battle of Alcazar_, a drama by George Peele
(1582). Pistol says to Mistress Quickly:
"Then feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis."--
Shakespeare, 2 _Henry IV._ act ii. sc 4 (1598).
CAL´IS (_The princess_), sister of As´torax, king of Paphos, in
love with Polydore, brother of general Memnon, but loved greatly by
Siphax.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Mad Lover_ (1617).
CALIS´TA, the fierce and haughty daughter of Sciol´to (_3 syl._), a
proud Genoese nobleman. She yielded to the seduction of Lotha´rio, but
engaged to marry Al´tamont, a young lord who loved her dearly. On the
wedding-day a letter was picked up which proved her guilt, and she was
subsequently seen by Altamont conversing with Lothario. A duel
ensued, in which Lothario fell; in a street row Sciolto received his
death-wound, and Calista stabbed herself. The character of "Calista"
was one of the parts of Mrs. Siddons, and also of Miss Brunton.--N.
Rowe, _The Fair Penitent_ (1703).
Richardson has given a purity and sanctity to the sorrows of his
"Clarissa" which leave "Calista" immeasurably behind.--R. Chambers,
_English Literature_, i. 590.
Twelve years after Norris's death, Mrs. Barry was acting the character
of "Calista." In the last act, where "Calista" lays her hand upon a
skull, she [_Mrs. Barry_] was suddenly seized with a shuddering, and
fainted. Next day she asked whence the skull had been obtained, and
was told it was "the skull of Mr. Norris, an actor." This Norris was
her former husband, and so great was the shock that she died within
six weeks.--Oxberry.
CALIS'TO AND AR'CAS. Calisto, an Arcadian nymph, was changed into a
she-bear. Her son Arcas, supposing the bear to be an ordinary beast,
was about to shoot it, when Jupiter metamorphosed him into a he-bear.
Both were taken to heaven by Jupiter, and became the constellations
_Ursa Minor_ and _Ursa Major_.
CALL'AGHAN O'BRALL'AGHAN (_Sir_), "a wild Irish soldier in the
Prussian army. His military humor makes one fancy he was not only
born in a siege, but that Bellona had been his nurse, Mars his
schoolmaster, and the Furies his playfellows" (act i. 1). He is the
successful suitor of Charlotte Goodchild.--C. Macklin, _Love à la
mode_ (1779).
CALLET, a _fille publique_. Brantôme says a _calle_ or _calotte_ is "a
cap," hence the phrase, _Plattes comme des calles_. Ben Jonson, in his
_Magnetick Lady_, speaks of "wearing the callet, the politic hood."
Des filles du peuple et de la campagne s'appellant _çalles_, à cause
de la "cale" qui leur servait de coiffure.--Francisque Michel.
En sa tête avoit un gros bonnet blanc, qui l'on appelle une _calle_,
et nous autres appelons _calotte_, ou bonnette blanche de lagne,
nouée ou bridée par dessous le menton.--Brantôme, _Vies des Dames
Illustres_.
A beggar in his drink
Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.
Shakespeare, _Othello_, act iv. sc. 2 (1611).
CALLIM'ACHUS (_The Italian_), Filippo Buonaccorsi (1437-1496).
CALLIR'RHOE (4 _syl._), the lady-love of Chae'reas, in a Greek romance
entitled _The Loves of Choreas and Callirrhoê_, by Char'iton (eighth
century).
CALLIS'THENES (4 _syl._), a philosopher who accompanied Alexander the
Great on his Oriental expedition. He refused to pay Alexander divine
honors, for which he was accused of treason, and being mutilated, was
chained in a cage for seven months like a wild beast. Lysimachus put
an end to his tortures by poison.
Oh let me roll in Macedonian rays,
Or, like Callisthenes, be caged for life,
Rather than shine in fashions of the East.
N. Lee, _Alexander the Great_, iv. I (1678).
CAL'MAR, son of Matha, lord of Lara (in Connaught). He is represented
as presumptuous, rash, and overbearing, but gallant and generous.
The very opposite of the temperate Connal, who advises caution and
forethought. Calmar hurries Cuthullin into action, which ends in
defeat. Connal comforts the general in his distress.--Ossian,
_Fingal_, i.
CAL'THON, brother of Col'mar, sons of Rathmor chief of Clutha (_the
Clyde_). The father was murdered in his halls by Dunthalmo lord of
Teutha (_the Tweed_), and the two boys were brought up by the murderer
in his own house, and accompanied him in his wars. As they grew in
years Dunthalmo fancied he perceived in their looks a something which
excited his suspicions, so he shut them up in two separate dark caves
on the banks of the Tweed. Colmal, daughter of Dunthalmo, dressed as
a young warrior, liberated Calthon, and fled with him to Morven, to
crave aid in behalf of the captive Colmar. Accordingly, Fingal sent
his son Ossian with 300 men to effect his liberation. When Dunthalmo
heard of the approach of this army, he put Colmar to death. Calthon,
mourning for his brother, was captured, and bound to an oak; but at
daybreak Ossian slew Dunthalmo, cut the thongs of Calthon, gave him
to Colmal, and they lived happily in the halls of Teutha.--Ossian,
_Calthon and Colmal_.
CAL´YDON (_Prince of_), Melea´ger, famed for killing the Calydonian
boar.--_Apollod._ i. 8. (See MELEAGER.)
As did the fatal brand Althaea burn'd,
Unto the prince's heart of Calydon.
Shakespeare, 2 _Henry VI._ act i. sc. 1 (1591).
_Cal´ydon_, a town of Aeto´lia, founded by Calydon. In Arthurian
romance Calydon is a forest in the north of our island. Probably it is
what Richard of Cirencester calls the "Caledonian Wood," westward of
the Varar or Murray Frith.
CALYDO´NIAN HUNT. Artemis, to punish Oeneus [_E´.nuce_] king of
Cal´ydon, in Aeto´lia, for neglect, sent a monster boar to ravage his
vineyards. His son Melea´ger collected together a large company to
hunt it. The boar being killed, a dispute arose respecting the head,
and this led to a war between the Curetês and Calydo´nians.
A similar tale is told of Theseus (_2 syl._), who vanquished and
killed the gigantic sow which ravaged the territory of Krommyon, near
Corinth. (See KROMMYONIAN SOW.)
CALYP´SO, in _Télémaque_, a prose-epic by Fénélon, is meant for Mde.
de Montespan. In mythology she was queen of the island Ogyg´ia, on
which Ulyssês was wrecked, and where he was detained for seven years.
She essayed after his departure to bring his son Telemachus under
her spell. The lad, seeking the world through for his father, was
preserved from the arts of the temptress by Mentor--Minerva in
disguise.
CALYPSO'S ISLE, Ogygia, a mythical island "in the navel of the sea."
Some consider it to be Gozo, near Malta. Ogygia (_not the island_) is
Boeo´tia, in Greece.
CAMA´CHO, "richest of men," makes grand preparations for his wedding
with Quite´ria, "fairest of women," but as the bridal party are on
their way, Basil´ius cheats him of his bride, by pretending to kill
himself. As it is supposed that Basilius is dying, Quiteria is married
to him as a mere matter of form, to soothe his last moments; but when
the service is over, up jumps Basilius, and shows that his "mortal
wounds" are a mere pretense.--Cervantes, an episode in _Don Quixote_,
II. ii. 4 (1615).
CAMAN´CHES (3 _syl._), or COMAN´CHES, an Indian tribe of Texas (United
States).
It is a caravan, whitening the desert where dwell the Camanches.
Longfellow, _To the Driving Cloud_.
CAMARAL´ZAMAN, prince of "the Island of the Children of Khal´edan,
situate in the open sea, some twenty days' sail from the coast of
Persia." He was the only child of Schah´zaman and Fatima, king and
queen of the island. He was very averse to marriage; but one night,
by fairy influence, being shown Badou´ra, only child of the king of
China, he fell in love with her and exchanged rings. Next day both
inquired what had become of the other, and the question was deemed
so ridiculous that each was thought to be mad. At length Marzavan
(foster-brother of the princess) solved the mystery. He induced the
prince Camaralzaman to go to China, where he was recognized by
the princess and married her. (The name means "the moon of the
period.")--_Arabian Nights_ ("Camaralzaman and Badoura").
CAM´BALLO, the second son of Cambuscan´ king of Tartary, brother of
Al´garsife (_3 syl._) and Can´acê (_3 syl._). He fought with two
knights who asked the lady Canacê to wife, the terms being that none
should have her till he had succeeded in worsting Camballo in combat.
Chaucer does not give us the sequel of this tale, but Spenser says
that three brothers, named Priamond, Diamond, and Triamond were
suitors, and that Triamond won her. The mother of these three (all
born at one birth) was Ag´apê, who dwelt in Faëry-land (bk. iv. 2).
Spenser makes Cambi´na (daughter of Agapê) the lady-love of Camballo.
Camballo is also called Camballus and Cambel.
_Camballo's Ring_, given him by his sister Canacê, "had power to
stanch all wounds that mortally did bleed."
Well mote ye wonder how that noble knight,
After he had so often wounded been,
Could stand on foot now to renew the fight ...
All was thro' virtue of the ring he wore;
The which not only did not from him let
One drop of blood to fall, but did restore
His weakened powers, and his dulled spirits whet.
Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, iv. 2 (1596).
CAMBEL, called by Chaucer Cam´ballo, brother of Can´acê (_3 syl._). He
challenged Every suitor to his sister's hand, and overthrew them all
except Tri´amond. The match between Cambel and Triamond was so
evenly balanced, that both would have been killed had not Cambi´na
interfered. (See next art.)--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, iv. 3 (1596).
CAMBI´NA, daughter of the fairy Ag´apê (_3 syl._). She had been
trained in magic by her mother, and when Cam´ballo, son of Cambuscan´,
had slain two of her brothers and was engaged in deadly combat with
the third (named Tri´amond), she appeared in the lists in her chariot
drawn by two lions, and brought with her a cup of nepenthe, which had
the power of converting hate to love, of producing oblivion of sorrow,
and of inspiring the mind with celestial joy. Cambina touched the
combatants with her wand and paralyzed them, then giving them the cup
to drink, dissolved their animosity, assuaged their pains, and filled
them with gladness. The end was that Camballo made Cambina his wife,
and Triamond married Can´acê.--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, iv. 3 (1596).
CAMBUSCAN´, king of Sarra, in the land of Tartary; the model of all
royal virtues.
At Sarra, in the lond of Tartarie,
Ther dwelt a king that werreied Russie,
Through which ther died many a doughty man:
This noble king was cleped Cambuscan
Which in his time was of so great renoun
That ther n' as no wher in no regioun,
So excellent a lord in alle thing:
* * * * *
This noble king, this Tartre Cambuscan
Hadde two sones by Elfeta his wif,
Of which the eldest sone highte Algarsif
That other was ycleped Camballo.
* * * * *
A doughter had this worthy king also
That youngest was and highte Canace.
Chaucer, _The Squire's Tale_.
Milton, in the Penseroso, alludes to the fact that the Squire's Tale
was not finished:
Or call up him that left half told
The story of Cambuscan bold.
CAMBY´SES (3 _syl._), a pompous, ranting character in Preston's
tragedy of that name,
I must speak in passion, and I will do it in
king Cambyses' vein.--Shakespeare, 1 _Henry IV_.
act ii. sc. 4 (1597).
CAMBY´SES AND SMERDIS. Cambysês king of Persia killed his brother
Smerdis from the wild suspicion of a madman, and it is only charity to
think that he was really _non compos mentis_.
Behold Cambisês and his fatal daye ...
While he his brother Mergus cast to slaye,
A dreadful thing, his wittes were him bereft.
T. Sackville, _A Mirrour for Magistraytes_ ("The
Complaynt," 1587).
CAMDEO, the god of love in Hindû mythology.
CAMIL´LA, the virgin queen of the Volscians, famous for her fleetness
of foot. She aided Turnus against Æneas.
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,
Flies o'er th' unbending corn, or skims along the main.
Pope.
_Camilla_, wife of Anselmo of Florence. Anselmo, in order to rejoice
in her incorruptible fidelity, induced his friend Lothario to try to
corrupt her. This he did, and Camilla was not trial-proof, but fell.
Anselmo for a time was kept in the dark, but at the end Camilla eloped
with Lothario. Anselmo died of grief, Lothario was slain in battle,
and Camilla died in a convent.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. iv. 5, 6
("Fatal Curiosity," 1605).
_Camilla_, English girl, heroine of Miss Burney's novel of same name.
_Camilla_, the heroine of _Signor Monaldini's Niece_, by Mary Agnes
Tincker, a story of modern Rome (1879).
CAMILLE´ (_2 syl._), in Corneille's tragedy of _Les Horaces_ (1639).
When her brother meets her and bids her congratulate him for his
victory over the three Curiatii, she gives utterance to her grief for
the death of her lover. Horace says, "What! can you prefer a man
to the interests of Rome?" Whereupon Camille denounces Rome, and
concludes with these words: "Oh, that it were my lot!" When Mdlle.
Rachel first appeared in the character of "Camille," she took Paris by
storm (1838).
Voir le dernier Romain à son dernier soupir,
Moi seule en être cause, et mourir de plaisir.
¤¤¤ Whitehead has dramatized the subject and called it _The Roman
Father_ (1741).
_Camille_, one of the Parisian _demi-monde_. She meets and loves
Armand Duval. Camille is besought by Duval _père_ to leave her lover,
whose prospects are ruined by the _liaison_. She quits him, returns to
her former life, and dies of consumption in the arms of her lover,
who has just found her after a long search.--A. Dumas, _La Dame aux
Camelias_.
CAMILLO, a lord in the Sicilian court, and a very good man. Being
commanded by king Leontês to poison Polixenês, instead of doing so he
gave him warning, and fled with him to Bohemia. When Polixenês ordered
his son Florizel to abandon Perdita, Camillo persuaded the young
lovers to seek refuge in Sicily, and induced Leontês, the king
thereof, to protect them. As soon as Polixenês discovered that Perdita
was Leontês' daughter, he readily consented to the union which before
he had forbidden.--Shakespeare, _The Winter's Tale_ (1604).
CAMI´OLA, "the maid of honor," a lady of great wealth, noble spirit,
and great beauty. She loved Bertoldo (brother of Roberto king of the
two Sicilies), and when Bertoldo was taken prisoner at Sienna, paid
his ransom. Bertoldo before his release was taken before Aurelia
the duchess of Sienna. Aurelia fell in love with him, and proposed
marriage, an offer which Bertoldo accepted. The betrothed then went to
Palermo to be introduced to the king, when Camiola exposed the conduct
of the base young prince. Roberto was disgusted at his brother,
Aurelia rejected him with scorn, and Camiola retired to a
nunnery.--Massinger, _The Maid of Honor_ (1637).
CAMPAS´PE (3 _syl._), mistress of Alexander. He gave her up to
Apellês, who had fallen in love with her while painting her
likeness.--Pliny, _Hist_. xxxv. 10.
John Lyly produced, in 1583, a drama entitled _Cupid and Campaspe_, in
which is the well-known lyric:
Cupid and my Campaspê played
At cards for kisses: Cupid paid.
CAMPBELL (_Captain_), called "Green Colin Campbell," or Bar´caldine (3
_syl._).--Sir W. Scott, _The Highland Widow_ (time, George II.).
_Campbell (General)_, called "Black Colin Campbell," in the king's
service. He suffers the papist conspirators to depart unpunished.--Sir
W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.).
_Campbell (Sir Duncan)_, knight of Ardenvohr, in the marquis of
Argyll's army. He was sent as ambassador to the earl of Montrose.
_Lady Mary Campbell_, sir Duncan's wife.
_Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchenbreck_, an officer in the army of the
marquis of Argyll.
_Murdoch Campbell_, a name assumed by the marquis of Argyll. Disguised
as a servant, he visited Dalgetty and M'Eagh in the dungeon, but the
prisoners overmastered him, bound him fast, locked him in the dungeon,
and escaped.--Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles I.).
_Campbell (The lady Mary)_, daughter of the duke of Argyll.
_The lady Caroline Campbell_, sister of lady Mary.--Sir W. Scott,
_Heart of Midlothian_ (time, George II.).
CAMPEADOR [_Kam.pay´.dor_], the Cid, who was called _Mio Cid el
Campeador_ ("my lord the champion"). "Cid" is a corruption of _saïd_
("lord").
CAMPO-BASSO (_The count of_), an officer in the duke of Burgundy's
army, introduced by sir W. Scott in two novels, _Quentin Durward_ and
_Anne of Geierstein_, both laid in the time of Edward IV.
CAN´ACE (3 _syl._), daughter of Cambuscan´, and the paragon of women.
Chaucer left the tale half told, but Spenser makes a crowd of suitors
woo her. Her brother Cambel or Cam´ballo resolved that none should
win his sister who did not first overthrow him in fight. At length
Tri´amond sought her hand, and was so nearly matched in fight with
Camballo, that both would have been killed, if Cambi´na, daughter of
the fairy Ag´apê (3 _syl._), had not interfered. Cambina gave the
wounded combatants nepenthe, which had the power of converting enmity
to love; so the combatants ceased from fight, Camballo took the fair
Cambina to wife, and Triamond married Canacê.--Chaucer, _Squire's
Tale_; Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, iv. 3 (1596).
_Canacê's Mirror_, a mirror which told the inspectors if the persons
on whom they set their affections would prove true or false.
_Canacê's Ring_. The king of Araby and Ind sent Canacê, daughter of
Cambuscan´ (king of Sarra, in Tartary), a ring which enabled her to
understand the language of birds, and to know the medical virtues of
all herbs.--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ ("The Squire's Tale," 1388).
CANDACE, negro cook in _The Minister's Wooing_, by Harriet Beecher
Stowe. She reverences Dr. Hopkins, but is slow to admit his dogma of
Imputed Sin in Consequence of Adam's Transgression (1859).
CANDAU´LES (_3 syl._), king of Lydia, who exposed the charms of his
wife to Gy´gês. The queen was so indignant that she employed Gygês to
murder her husband. She then married the assassin, who became king of
Lydia, and reigned twenty-eight years (B.C. 716-688).
CANDAY´A (_The kingdom of_), situate between the great Trapoba´na and
the South Sea, a couple of leagues beyond cape Com´orin.--Cervantes,
_Don Quixote_, II. iii. 4 (1615).
CANDIDE´ (_2 syl._), the hero of Voltaire's novel of the same name. He
believes that "all things are for the best in the best of all possible
worlds."
Voltaire says "No." He tells you that Candide
Found life most tolerable after meals.
Byron, _Don Juan_, v. 31 (1820).
CANDOUR (_Mrs._), the beau-ideal of female backbiters.--Sheridan, _The
School for Scandal_ (1777).
CAN´IDIA, a Neapolitan, beloved by the poet Horace. When she deserted
him, he held her up to contempt as an old sorceress who could by
charms unsphere the moon.--Horace, _Epodes_, v. and xvii.
Such a charm were right Canidian.
Mrs. Browning, _Hector in the Garden_, iv.
CANMORE or GREAT-HEAD, Malcolm III. of Scotland (1057-1093).--Sir W.
Scott, _Tales of a Grandfather_, i. 4.
CANNING (_George_), statesman (1770-1827). Charles Lamb calls him:
St. Stephen's fool, the zany of debate.
_Sonnet in "The Champion_."
CANO´POS, Meneläos's pilot, killed in the return voyage from Troy by
the bite of a serpent. The town Canöpos (Latin, _Canopus_) was built
on the site where the pilot was buried.
CAN´TAB, a member of the University of Cambridge. The word is a
contraction of the Latin _Cantabrig´ia_.
CAN´TACUZENE´ (_4 syl._), a noble Greek family, which has furnished
two emperors of Constantinople, and several princes of Moldavia and
Wallachia. The family still survives.
We mean to show that the Cantacuzenês are
not the only princely family in the world.--D'Israeli,
_Lothaire_.
There are other members of the Cantacuzenê
family besides myself.--Ditto.
_Can´tacuzene´_ (_Michael_), the grand sewer of Alexius Comne´nus,
emperor of Greece.--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_. (time,
Rufus).
CANTERBURY TALES. Eighteen tales told by a company of pilgrims going
to visit the shrine of "St. Thomas à Becket" at Canterbury. The party
first assembled at the Tabard, an inn in Southwark, and there agreed
to tell one tale each both going and returning, and the person who
told the best tale was to be treated by the rest to a supper at the
Tabard on the homeward journey. The party consisted of twenty-nine
pilgrims, so that the whole budget of tales should have been
fifty-eight, but only eighteen of the number were told, not one being
on the homeward route. The chief of these tales are: "The Knight's
Tale" (_Pal´amon and Ar´cite, 2 syl._); "The Man of Law's Tale"
(_Custance, 2 syl._); "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (_A Knight_); "The
Clerk's Tale" (_Grisildis_); "The Squire's Tale" (_Cambuscan_,
incomplete); "The Franklin's Tale" _(Dor'igen and Arvir'agus)_;
"The Prioress's Tale" (_Hugh of Lincoln_); "The Priest's Tale"
(_Chanticleer and Partelite_); "The Second Nun's Tale" (_St.
Cecil'ia_); "The Doctor's Tale" (_Virginia_); "The Miller's Tale"
(_John the Carpenter and Alison_); and "The Merchant's Tale" (_January
and May_) (1388).
CANTON, the Swiss valet of lord Ogleby. He has to skim the morning
papers and serve out the cream of them to his lordship at breakfast,
"with good emphasis and good discretion." He laughs at all his
master's jokes, flatters him to the top of his bent, and speaks of him
as a mere chicken compared to himself, though his lordship is seventy
and Canton about fifty. Lord Ogleby calls him his "cephalic snuff,
and no bad medicine against megrims, vertigoes, and profound
thinkings."--Colman and Garrick, _The Clandestine Marriage_ (1766).
CAN'TRIPS (_Mrs._), a quondam friend of Nanty Ewart, the
smuggler-captain.
_Jessie Cantrips_, her daughter.--Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time,
George III.).
CANT'WELL (Dr.), the hypocrite, the English representative of
Molière's Tartuffe. He makes religious cant the instrument of gain,
luxurious living, and sensual indulgence. His overreaching and
dishonorable conduct towards lady Lambert and her daughter gets
thoroughly exposed, and at last he is arrested as a swindler.--I.
Bicker staff, _The Hypocrite_ (1768).
Dr. Cantwell ... the meek and saintly hypocrite.
L. Hunt.
CANUTE' or CNUT and EDMUND IRONSIDE. William of Malmesbury says:
When Canute and Edmund were ready for their sixth battle in
Gloucestershire, it was arranged between them to decide their
respective claims by single combat. Cnut was a small man, and Edmund
both tall and strong; so Cnut said to his adversary, "We both lay
claim to the kingdom in right of our fathers; let us therefore divide
it and make peace;" and they did so.
Canutus of the two that furthest was from hope ...
Cries, "Noble Edmund hold! Let us the land divide."
... and all aloud do cry,
"Courageous kings, divide! 'Twere pity such should die."
Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xii. (1613).
CANUTE'S BIRD, the knot, a corruption of "Knut," the _Cinclus
bellonii_, of which king Canute was extremely fond.