suppress the rebellion headed by Ket, and was made sheriff of Norfolk
in 1553. In the following year he escorted the princess Elizabeth to
London; and was one of the commissioners at the trial of sir Thomas
Wyatt, the insurrectionary leader. From 1554-7 he was treasurer of
Calais, and it is generally considered that he sold the town to the
French. In the latter year he was made Comptroller of the Household,
but on the accession of Elizabeth was removed from the post, as well as
from the privy council, and retired into private life. He died in 1604
(1510-1604).
_Queen Mary._
CORONACH.
An Irish funeral song or lamentation.
_Dying Swan._
CORRIENTES.
A province, Argentine Republic, between the Parana and the Uruguay
rivers.
_To Ulysses._
COSSACK.
Cossack and Russian
Reel’d from the sabre-stroke,
Shatter’d and sunder’d.
The Cossacks are a warlike people in south-eastern Russia, forming
splendid light cavalry.
_Charge of the Light Brigade._
COURTENAY.
Edward Courtenay, earl of Devonshire. With his parents was in 1538,
when only twelve years of age, imprisoned in the Tower until 1547, when
he was released by Edward VI. On the accession of Mary he was created
earl of Devonshire, and at her coronation carried the Sword of State;
and being held in high favour by the queen, was hopeful for her hand
in marriage; but on Mary’s marriage with Philip of Spain was urged
to propose marriage to the princess Elizabeth. At the end of 1553 a
plot was discovered having for its object the placing of Elizabeth on
the throne. Sir Thomas Wyatt joined in the conspiracy, but he and his
followers were promptly suppressed and Courtenay was sent back to the
Tower, and subsequently removed to Fotheringay. In 1555 he was exiled
and went to Brussels, and thence to Padua, where he died (1526-1556).
_Queen Mary._
COURT-GALEN.
Our great court-Galen poised his gilt-head cane,
Has reference to a celebrated Greek physician named Claudius Galenus of
Pergamos. He went to Rome where he gained great renown in the medical
profession, and undertook scientific journeys through Greece and Asia.
He was a great writer, being author of some 300 volumes--125 of which
were destroyed in a fire--and his writings, which left no branch of
medicine untouched, formed for many centuries the chief text-books for
physicians and doctors. It was customary for the medical profession to
carry a gilt-headed cane in his honour.
_The Princess._
COVENTRY.
A city in Warwickshire. According to legend it obtained its municipal
rights from Leofric about 1044, by the ride of Godiva (_q.v._) through
the streets of the city.
_Godiva._
COVERDALE (Miles).
Bishop of Exeter, and translator of the _Bible_. The _Great Bible_ or
_Cromwell’s Bible_ (1539) was printed under his direction and issued
under the auspices of Thomas Lord Cromwell. _Cranmer’s Bible_ (1540),
was also edited by Coverdale. Appointed chaplain to Edward VI in 1548
and bishop of Exeter in 1551. Upon the accession of Mary he was deposed
from his See and imprisoned, but released upon the intercession of the
king of Denmark and retired to Geneva; but returned to England after
Elizabeth had ascended the throne, and subsequently appointed to the
living of St. Magnus, near London Bridge (1488-1568).
_Queen Mary._
COW.
The female of the bovine animals.
_The Brook_;
_Northern Farmer, Old Style_;
_Village Wife_;
_Promise of May_;
_Spinster’s Sweet-Arts_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_;
_Church-warden and the Curate_;
_Queen Mary_;
_The Foresters_.
COWSLIP.
A species of primrose, having yellow blossoms.
_Adeline_;
_Rosalind_;
_May Queen_;
_Talking Oak_;
_Aylmer’s Field_;
_In the Children’s Hospital_.
CRAB.
An animal of the class _Crustacea_ with the whole body covered by a
crust-like shell.
_Harold_;
_The Foresters_;
_Walking to the Mail_.
CRADLEMONT.
A king of North Wales, subdued by king Arthur, fighting on behalf of
Leodogran, king of Cameliard.
_Coming of Arthur._
CRAG-CLOISTER.
The monastery of Sumelas. It stands on the side of a rocky glen near
Trebizond, 4,000 feet above the level of the sea, and is approached by
a zigzag path at the side of the cliff. The foundation is considered
to be some 1,500 years old, and in 1360 it was rebuilt by the emperor
Alexius Comnenus. The bull of that emperor, which henceforth became its
charter, is still preserved in the monastery, which also possesses the
firman of Mohammed II, by which he accorded his protection to the monks
on becoming ruler of that part of Asia Minor.
_To Ulysses._
CRAKE.
A corn-crake, a bird which frequents grain fields.
_In Memoriam._
CRANE.
A large wading bird, with long legs, neck and bill.
_The Princess_;
_Progress of Spring_.
CRANMER.
Archbishop of Canterbury; born at Aslacton, Nottingham. In 1522 he was
appointed vicar of St. Mary’s, Taunton. His opinion of the divorce of
Henry VIII with Catherine of Aragon recommended him to that monarch,
which opinions he propounded in a treatise. In 1530 he was sent as
an embassy to the pope, and two years later to the emperor Charles
V, and while in Germany married a niece of the reformer Osiander. In
1533 he was created archbishop of Canterbury, and pronounced Henry’s
marriage with Catherine as invalid and that with Anne Boleyn lawful. On
the accession of Mary he was committed to the Tower, but subsequently
released. A charge of heresy was however brought against him and he was
condemned. On the promise of life he was induced to sign his abjuration
of the Protestant faith. For having committed this act he was struck
with deep remorse, and when brought into St. Mary’s Church, Oxford, to
read his recantation in public, instead of complying he denounced the
errors of the Romish Church. This greatly enraged his enemies, who,
denouncing him as a heretic, dragged him to the stake opposite Balliol
College. When the faggots were lighted he put his right hand in the
flame and exclaimed ‘This unworthy hand’ (1489-1556).
_Queen Mary._
CRAW.
Woä--theer’s a craw to pluck wi’ tha, Sam:
= crow, to have something to settle with some one.
_Northern Farmer, New Style._
CRETE.
or Candia, an island in the Mediterranean sea.
_On a Mourner._
CRICHTON.
His own--I call’d him Crichton, for he seem’d
All-perfect, finish’d to the finger nail.
James Crichton, surnamed ‘the Admirable Crichton’ a Scottish nobleman.
He visited Paris, Rome and other continental universities, and at
Venice he challenged all scholars, claiming to be an expert linguist,
as well as an expert swordsman. He became tutor to the son of the duke
of Mantua. He was killed one night in the street, presumably by a body
of masked men, when only twenty-three years of age.
_Edwin Morris._
CRICKET.
An orthopterous insect. The male makes a chirping noise by rubbing his
wing-covers against each other.
_Death of the Old Year_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_.
CROCODILE’S TEARS.
= Affected tears.
_A Dirge._
CROCUS.
A bulbous plant with brilliant yellow or purple flowers.
_Œnone_;
_Palace of Art_;
_To Rev. F. D. Maurice_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_;
_Prefatory Sonnet to the ‘Nineteenth Century’_;
_Progress of Spring_.
CROW.
A large black bird.
_Audley Court_;
_Locksley Hall_;
_Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_The Ring_;
_Queen Mary_;
_The Foresters_.
CROWN.
An inn sign.
and she brew’d the best ale in all Glo’ster, that is to say in her
time when she had the ‘Crown.’
_Becket._
CUCKOO.
A bird whose name is supposed to be called from its note. It builds no
nest of its own, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds to be
hatched by them.
_Gardener’s Daughter_;
_The Princess_;
_The Window_;
_Coming of Arthur_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Prefatory Poem to my Brother’s Sonnets_;
_To Mary Boyle_;
_Progress of Spring_;
_Queen Mary_.
CUCKOO-FLOWER.
A species of Cardamine, called also _Lady’s Smock_.
_Margaret_;
_May Queen_.
CULVER.
A dove, or wood-pigeon.
_Progress of Spring._
CUMBERLAND.
_Promise of May._
CUNOBELINE.
= Cámulodúne (_q.v._)
CUPID.
In Roman mythology the God of love, and the son of Mercury and Venus;
represented as a winged boy and armed with a bow and a quiver of
arrows. In Apuleius’ _Golden Ass_ Cupid and Psyche (_q.v._) are the
subjects of a beautiful fable representing the soul of perfection.
_Edwin Morris_;
_Talking Oak_;
_The Princess_;
_Becket_.
CUSHIE.
Name of a cow.
_Spinster’s Sweet-Arts._
CYGNET.
A young swan.
_Lancelot and Elaine._
CYPRESS.
An evergreen tree, whose branches used to be used at funerals and to
adorn tombs, hence a symbol of mourning and sadness.
_Amphion_;
_The Princess_;
_The Daisy_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Dedicatory Poem to the Princess Alice_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_;
_Akbar’s Dream_;
_The Cup_.
CYRIL.
One of the two friends of prince Arac. A man of vigorous, healthy
common-sense, undisturbed by haunting fancies, unfettered by false
modesty, and as clear-sighted as jovial. In gaining admission to the
ladies’ college he had a very humorous manner in dealing with two of
the tutors. Psyche he appeased, by complimenting her abilities as a
lecturer, and admiring Aglaïa, her baby. The lady Blanche he silenced
by appealing to her ambitions.
_The Princess._
CYPRUS.
Again this Richard is the lion of Cyprus,
Robin, the lion of Sherwood--
= Richard Cœur de Lion. When journeying to Jerusalem on the third
Crusade he stayed some time at this island, and here he married
Berengaria of Navarre, after having deposed the ruler of the island.
_The Foresters._
CYRUS.
A warlike and blood-thirsty king who after subduing the eastern parts
of Asia organized an expedition against the Massagetæ in Scythia.
Tomyris (_q.v._), queen of the Massagetæ, met and defeated him, and
cutting off his head threw it into a vessel filled with human blood,
remarking as she did so, ‘There, drink thy fill,’
And great bronze valves, emboss’d with Tomyris
And what she did to Cyprus after fight,
_The Princess._
CZAR.
And Jack on his ale-house bench has as many lies as a Czar;
Represents the indignation of the English people with Russia in 1853 at
her destruction of the independence of Poland, and its tyrannous demand
for the surrender of the Hungarian refugees.
_Maud._
DAFFODIL.
A plant of the genus _Narcissus_. It has a bulbous root, and flowers
of a yellow hue.
_Maud_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Prefatory Sonnet to the ‘Nineteenth Century.’_
DAFFODILLY.
= Daffodil.
_The Princess._
DAGONET.
King Arthur’s Fool and a Knight of the Round Table.
And upon a day Sir Dagonet, King Arthur’s fool, came into Cornwall,
with two squires with him,
* * * * *
For they would not for no good that Sir Dagonet were hurt, for king
Arthur loved him passing well, and made him knight with his own
hands. And at every tournament he began to make king Arthur to laugh.
Malory: _Morte d’Arthur, Book X. chap. xii._
Tennyson says that he was made a mock-knight by Gawain.
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood
Had made mock-knight of Arthur’s Table Round,
At Camelot,
_Last Tournament._
DAHOMEY.
A French colony on the Guinea coast of Africa. The colony represents
the former native kingdom of Dahomey, where human victims were offered
in sacrifice, but these were prohibited after the country was subdued
by the French in 1892.
Head-hunters and boats of Dahomey that float upon human blood!
_The Dawn._
DAISY.
Name of a cow.
_Queen Mary._
DAISY.
A common wild-flower.
_Two Voices_;
_Gardener’s Daughter_;
_The Daisy_;
_City Child_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Maud_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_The Wreck_;
_The Ring_;
_The Throstle_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Promise of May_;
_The Foresters_.
DAMON.
The polish’d Damon of your pastoral here,
This Dobson of your idyll?
A goat-herd in Virgil’s _Eclogues_.
_Promise of May._
DAN.
DANNY O’ROON.
The lover of a certain Molly Magee. They agreed to meet on the morrow
at a chapel-door, but that to-morrow never came. Years afterwards his
body was found in a peat bog, perfectly preserved. Molly recognized the
body as that of her former lover and fell dead by his side.
_Tomorrow._
DANAË.
An Argive princess, daughter of Acrisius (_q.v._), king of Argos. She
was confined in an inaccessible tower of brass by her father, where she
was visited by Jupiter in the form of a shower of gold, and became the
mother of Perseus. She was then, with her son, cast into the sea, but
was rescued by a fisherman named Dictys, of the island of Seriphos.
Polydectes, king of the island, wished her to marry him, but Perseus
rescued her, and took her back to Greece.
The included Danaë has escaped again
Her tower, and her Acrisius--where to seek?
I have been about the city.
_The Princess_;
_Becket_.
DANAÏD.
Danaus, king of Argos, had fifty daughters, called the Danaïds.
Ægyptus, brother of Belus, king of Egypt, and his fifty sons drove
Danaus and his fifty daughters from Egypt into Argos. The sons of
Ægyptus subsequently followed and compelled Danaus to give his
daughters in marriage. At their father’s command they all (with one
exception), murdered their husbands on their wedding-night, and were
punished in Hades by having to pour water everlastingly into sieves.
Let not your prudence, dearest, drowse, or prove
The Danaïd of a leaky vase,
The heads of the sons of Ægyptus were buried at Argos; but their bodies
were left at Lerna, where they had been murdered.
_The Princess._
DANCE OF DEATH.
An allegorical representation of the universal power of death, dating
from the fourteenth century. Frescoes of the Dance of Death are painted
on the walls of the Campo Santo at Pisa; on the walls of the Tower of
London; the cloister of St. Paul’s; the Hungerford Chapel at Salisbury
Cathedral; and many other churches.
_Queen Mary._
DAN CHAUCER.
Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath
Preluded those melodious bursts that fill
The spacious times of great Elizabeth
With sounds that echo still.
Dan is a title of honour commonly used by old poets.
_Dream of Fair Women._
DANIEL.
Refers to Daniel, a book of the Old Testament.
_Sea Dreams._
DANIEL.
Has reference to Daniel, the Hebrew Prophet.
_Harold._
DANNY.
DANNY O’ROON.
_See_ =Dan=.
_Tomorrow._
DAN SMITH.
A farm labourer.
_Promise of May._
DANTE.
The most distinguished of the Italian poets.
_Palace of Art._
DANUBE.
The Danube to the Severn gave
The darken’d heart that beat no more;
They laid him by the pleasant shore,
And in the hearing of the wave.
Let her great Danube rolling fair
Enwind her isles, unmark’d of me:
I have not seen, I will not see
Vienna;
Arthur Henry Hallam, died at Vienna on the Danube, and was buried at
Clevedon on the Severn.
_In Memoriam._
DARNLEY BRIDGE.
There is Darnley bridge
It has more ivy;
_The Brook._
DARNLEY CHASE.
Then crost the common into Darnley chase
To show Sir Arthur’s deer.
_The Brook._
DAUPHIN, THE.
The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the
crown. Since the Revolution of 1830 the title has been discontinued.
Mary, queen of Scots, was married to the dauphin of France in 1558, who
for a year (1559-60) was king Frances II.
_Queen Mary._
DAVID.
King David called the heavens a hide,
_See Psalm civ. 2._
_Columbus._
DAVID.
They say the gloom of Saul
Was lightened by young David’s harp
_See Samuel xvi. 23._
_Queen Mary._
DAVID.
And no David
To meet him?
_See Samuel xvii._
_Harold._
DAWES (Jocky).
_See_ =Jocky Dawes=.
_Walking to the Mail._
DEAD INNOCENCE.
_See_ =Tournament of the Dead Innocence=.
DEAD MARCH.
Hush, the Dead March wails in the people’s ears:
The dark crowd moves, and there are sobs and tears:
= a funeral march in Handel’s _Oratorio_.
_Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington._
DEAN.
An ancient royal forest in the west of Gloucestershire.
_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Pelleas and Ettarre_.
DE BRITO.
One of the murderers of Thomas Becket.
_Becket._
DE BROC.
of Saltwood Castle. It was at this castle that the four
knights--murderers of Becket--stayed upon their arrival in England from
Normandy, and from thence proceeded to Canterbury.
_Becket._
DEE.
The river Dee; rises in Bala lake in Merionethshire and flows into the
Irish Sea. The ancient Britons considered it to be a sacred river, its
ancient name Deva meaning divine.
As the south-west that blowing Bala lake
Fills all the sacred Dee.
_Geraint and Enid._
DEER.
A quadruped of several species, as the stag, the fallow-deer, the
reindeer, etc.
_Talking Oak_;
_Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere_;
_The Brook_;
_Aylmer’s Field_;
_The Princess_;
_The Victim_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Last Tournament_;
_Harold_;
_Becket_;
_The Cup_;
_The Foresters_.
DELIUS.
A surname of Apollo, because he was born at Delos.
_Lucretius._
DE MORVILLE.
Hugh de Morville, son of Hugh de Morville, of Burgh-on-Sands, and one
who took part in the murder of Thomas Becket. He married Helwis de
Stuteville and thus inherited the castle of Knaresborough. There is
scant evidence as to whether he actually struck the archbishop, as he
kept back the crowd which were pouring into the cathedral. After the
murder he rode with his companions to Saltwood Castle, and thence to
Knaresborough, where he sheltered his fellow-murderers, and finally was
sent by the pope to the Holy Land as a penance, after which he regained
the royal favour. He died in 1204.
_Becket._
DEMOS.
Celtic Demos rose a Demon,
The mob of France, with Celtic blood in their veins.
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After._
DENIS.
DENIS OF FRANCE.
Bishop of Paris and patron saint of France. One of the missionaries
sent from Rome in the third century to convert the Gauls. By order of
the Roman governor he was tortured and put to death about 270 +A.D.+
Ay, by St. Denis, now will he flame out,
And lose his head as old St. Denis did.
_Becket._
DENMARK.
The King of France is with us; the King of Denmark is with us; the
world is with us--war against Spain!
_Queen Mary._
DERWENT.
A river in Derbyshire.
Where lie the Norsemen? on the Derwent? ay
At Stamford-bridge.
_Harold._
DESENZANO.
Row us out from Desenzano, to your Sirmione row!
So they row’d, and there we landed--
A small town at the south-west angle of the Lago de Garda in Italy.
_Frater Ave Atque Vale._
DE TRACY.
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,
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