(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.