will never again touch his heart, as it is buried with Ellen Adair.
_Edward Gray._
EMMIE.
A little girl who died in the ward of a children’s hospital, after
undergoing an operation.
_In the Children’s Hospital._
EMPEROR-MOTH.
One of the several large and beautiful moths, the prevailing colours
being dark grey, brown and reddish yellow.
_The Princess._
EMRYS (Aurelius).
_See_ =Aurelius=.
’ENEMIES.
Anemones.
_Northern Farmer, Old Style._
ENGLAND.
_Talking Oak_;
_Amphion_;
_Enoch Arden_;
_Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington_;
_Third of February_;
_A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna,
Duchess of Edinburgh_;
_The Daisy_;
_On Translations of Homer_;
_Milton_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Dedication of Idylls_;
_To the Queen, II_;
_Dedicatory Poem to the Princess Alice_;
_Defence of Lucknow_;
_Columbus_;
_To Victor Hugo_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_;
_Prologue to General Hamley_;
_Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe_;
_Hands all Round_;
_The Fleet_;
_To Professor Jebb_;
_Kapiolani_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Harold_;
_Becket_;
_The Foresters_.
ENGLISH GARTER.
and round his knee, misplaced,
Our English Garter, studded with great emeralds,
Rubies, I know not what.
The Order of the Garter, an order of Knighthood instituted in 1344, by
Edward III; it is the highest order of Knighthood, and is designated
K.G.
_Queen Mary._
ENGLISH IRONSIDE.
Edmund the Second, commonly known as Ironside on account of his
bravery, son of Ethelred the Unready and half-brother to the Confessor.
Elected king in 1016, but only London acknowledged him, the rest of
England accepting the rule of Canute the Dane, who was chosen king at
Southampton. A fierce struggle therefore raged between him and Canute,
and Edmund defeated the Danes at Pen in Somersetshire, at Sherborne,
and at Otford. He was however defeated at Assandûn, where ‘all the
flower of the English race perished’ and an arrangement was entered
into at Olney, an island in the Severn, by which the kingdom was
divided, Edmund receiving Wessex, East Anglia, Essex and London; and
Canute Mercia and Northumbria; and it was further agreed that on the
death of either the survivor was to succeed him. A few weeks after this
agreement Edmund was assassinated at Oxford by two of his chamberlains
(981-1016).
Or Athelstan, or English Ironside
Who fought with Knut, or Knut who coming Dane
Died English.
_Harold._
ENID.
Daughter of earl Yniol and the wife of sir Geraint, a Knight of the
Round Table, who had delivered the earl from the tyranny of his nephew
Edyrn. When Guinevere’s infidelity was spread about the court of
Arthur, Geraint, in order to save Enid from the taint, left the court
and removed to his mansion in Devonshire. Overhearing the latter part
of a sentence uttered by her, Geraint charged her with unfaithfulness,
and bade his wife to wear her meanest apparel.
And thou, put on thy worst and meanest dress,
And ride with me.’ And Enid ask’d, amazed,
‘If Enid errs, let Enid learn her fault.’
Being wounded in battle Enid nursed him with such devotion that he saw
he had misjudged her. Full of repentance he expressed his mistake and
they became reconciled, and ‘crown’d a happy life with a fair death.’
nor did he doubt her more
But rested in her fealty, till he crown’d
A happy life with a fair death, and fell
Against the heathen of the Northern Sea
In battle, fighting for the blameless King.
At the court of Arthur she was called ‘Enid the fair,’ but the people
called her ‘Enid the good.’ The representation of purity, she was loved
by queen Guinevere and was the most beautiful lady at Arthur’s court
next after the queen.
_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Geraint and Enid_;
_Guinevere_.
ENNA.
A city of Sicily, remarkable for its fertile soil and numerous springs.
In ancient times it possessed a famous temple of Demeter and another of
Proserpine. Proserpine was carried off by Pluto while gathering flowers
in the plain.
she moved,
Like Proserpine in Enna, gathering flowers:
_Edwin Morris_;
_Demeter and Persephone_;
_To Professor Jebb_.
ENOCH.
ENOCH ARDEN.
The hero of _Enoch Arden_. He was a ‘rough sailor’s lad.’ At first
he was successful, prospered in his fishing, became an able seaman
on board a merchantman, and before he attained the age of twenty-one
purchased his own boat and married Anne Lee, ‘the prettiest little
damsel in the port.’ All things continued to go well until he fell from
a mast and broke a limb, and the master of the ship he had served in
hearing of his misfortune offered to take him as boatswain, to which
Enoch consented. When the day of his departure arrived he kissed his
wife and his two elder children, but the youngest, asleep in the cot,
he would not waken, but took away with him a little curl from the
baby’s head.
Enoch rose,
Cast his strong arms about his drooping wife,
And kiss’d his wonder-stricken little ones;
But for the third, the sickly one, who slept
After a night of feverous wakefulness,
When Annie would have raised him Enoch said,
‘Wake him not: let him sleep; how should the child
Remember this?’ and kiss’d him in his cot.
But Annie from her baby’s forehead clipt
A tiny curl, and gave it: this he kept
Thro’ all his future;
During his absence his wife had no success, and had it not been for
Philip Ray would have sunk into poverty. Ten years passed away, and
nothing having been heard of Enoch, Philip offered to marry her,
and she became his wife. In the meantime, Enoch had on his homeward
voyage been wrecked on a desert island. During his solitary life on the
island, the sights and sounds of his home passed continually through
his mind, until at length a ship took him off and he returned to
England. Arriving at the little port he reached his old home,
But finding neither light nor murmur there
(A bill of sale gleam’d thro’ the drizzle) crept
Still downward thinking ‘dead or dead to me!’
Going to the village tavern he found that during his absence the
landlord had passed away, but his widow, Miriam Lane, still held the
house and here he rested. So completely had he changed that he lived at
the tavern without being identified, and learned from Miriam Lane the
story of his house.
Told him, with other annals of the port,
Not knowing--Enoch was so brown, so bow’d.
So broken--all the story of his house.
His baby’s death, her growing poverty,
How Philip put her little ones to school,
And kept them in it, his long wooing her,
Her slow consent and marriage,
But Enoch longed to see his wife again, and in the darkness went to
Philip’s house, and through the window saw his wife and children in
comfort on Philip’s hearth. Creeping from the garden he fell upon the
earth and prayed for strength not to tell her, never to let her know.
But he did not live long. Finding death dawning upon him he called
for Miriam Lane, and under promise on the Bible not to divulge until
after death, told her who he was, and taking from his pocket the dead
child’s curl bade her to give it to Annie in order that she might know
that it was really he, and to tell her that he died blessing her and
her children and Philip. Three days afterwards he passed away, and in
gratitude to this devoted soul was, by the villagers, accorded a rich
funeral.
Then the third night after this,
While Enoch slumber’d motionless and pale,
And Miriam watch’d and dozed at intervals,
There came so loud a calling of the sea,
That all the houses in the haven rang.
He woke, he rose, he spread his arms abroad
Crying with a loud voice, ‘A sail! a sail!
I am saved:’ and so fell back and spoke no more.
So past the strong heroic soul away,
And when they buried him the little port
Had seldom seen a costlier funeral.
_Enoch Arden._
EPHESIAN ARTEMIS.
Artemis, Artemis, hear her,
Ephesian Artemis!
= Diana of the Ephesians. Her magnificent temple at Ephesus was burnt
to the ground by Herostratos, in the same night in which Alexander the
great was born (+B.C.+ 356). It was rebuilt by contributions from all
the Ionian cities, and was regarded as one of the seven wonders of
the world. This ‘Ephesian Artemis’ was apparently an ancient Asiatic
deity whose worship the Greeks found in Ionia. Its image is stated to
have fallen down from Jupiter (Acts, chap. xix. verse 35), the lord of
Heaven.
_The Cup._
EPHESUS.
I have had a vision
The seven sleepers in the cave at Ephesus
Have turn’d from right to left.
Has reference to the seven Christian youths of Ephesus, who, in order
to escape from the persecution of the Christians under Decius took
refuge in a cave near that city. Being discovered, great stones were
rolled against the entrance to the cave in order that they might die
of hunger. They however fell into a supernatural sleep, and some 200
years afterwards, in the reign of Theodosius, they were discovered.
One of the seven was sent to the city to purchase provisions, but was
arrested for offering a coin of the time of Decius and brought before
the authorities; but leading his accusers to the cavern where his six
companions were found, was liberated. The seven sleepers is a favourite
subject in early mediæval art.
_Harold._
ERIN.
The Celtic name for Ireland.
_Coming of Arthur._
ERNE (Miriam).
_See_ =Miriam, Miriam Erne=.
ERNE (Muriel).
_See_ =Muriel Erne=.
EROSES.
But a bevy of Eroses apple-cheek’d,
In a shallop of crystal ivory-beak’d,
With a satin sail of a ruby glow.
= gods.
_The Islet._
ESAÏAS.
Word of God
In English: over this the brainless loons
That cannot spell Esaïas from St. Paul,
Make themselves drunk and mad, fly out and flare
Into rebellions.
= Isaiah.
_Queen Mary._
ESAU.
And from a heart as rough as Esau’s hand,
He answer’d, ‘Ride you naked thro’ the town,
And I repeal it;’
_See Genesis xxvii. 23._
_Godiva._
ESH.
ESHTREE.
= Ash-tree.
_Northern Farmer, New Style_;
_Promise of May_.
ESHCOL.
over which there roll’d
To meet me long-arm’d vines with grapes
Of Eshcol hugeness.
The name signifies a bunch of grapes. _See Numbers_ xiii. 23-24.
_To E. Fitzgerald._
ESSEX.
Why, Madam, she was passing
Some chapel down in Essex, and with her
Lady Anne Wharton, and the Lady Anne
Bow’d to the Pyx;
_Queen Mary._
ESTHER.
A Jewish maiden, the niece of Mordecai, a Jewish resident at the court
of Ahasuerus. Was chosen as queen in place of Vashti, who had refused
to obey the king’s command. _Esther._
_Marriage of Geraint._
ETHELRED (the Second).
Called the ‘Unready’; king of Saxon England, son of Edgar and Elfrida;
succeeded his half-brother Edmund the Martyr in 979. During his reign
the Danes invaded England, and Ethelred defeated them at Watchet
in Somersetshire and at Maldon, but his unmanly spirit submitted to
pay a tribute to the Danes by a tax levied on his subjects known
as the ‘Danegeld.’ In 1002 during the time of peace he ordered a
general massacre of all the Danes in England, and Sweyn, king of
Denmark, entered his kingdom and he fled to Normandy. Sweyn dying soon
afterwards Ethelred returned and in 1014 he defeated Cnut, but in the
following year Cnut renewed his attack, ravaged Mercia and Wessex, and
was preparing to march on London when Ethelred died April 23, 1016.
_Harold._
ETTARRE.
A lady loved by sir Pelleas, but being so proud she scorned him, and
said she would never return his love even if he died for her. But
Pelleas promised to follow her from place to place, and never to leave
her until she returned his love; but she sent her knights to fight with
him and treated him very shamefully.
Thereon her wrath became a hate; and once,
A week beyond, while walking on the walls
With her three knights, she pointed downward, ‘Look,
He haunts me--I cannot breathe--besieges me:
Down! strike him! put my hate into your strokes,
And drive him from my walls.’ And down they went,
And Pelleas overthrew them one by one;
And from the tower above him cried Ettarre,
‘Bind him, and bring him in.’
Sir Gawain then promised to advocate his cause with the lady, but
she played him false, for sir Pelleas coming to the pavilion outside
Ettarre’s castle found them caressing each other.
Then was he ware of three pavilions rear’d
Above the bushes, gilden-peakt: in one,
Red after revel, droned her lurdane knights
Slumbering, and their three squires across their feet:
In one, their malice on the placid lip
Froz’n by sweet sleep, four of her damsels lay;
And in the third, the circlet of the jousts
Bound on her brow, were Gawain and Ettarre.
The Damosel of the Lake then came to Pelleas and bade him come forth
with her in the country, and ‘she rejoiced sir Pelleas, and they lived
together during their life days’ and the lady Ettarre died from sorrow.
_Pelleas and Ettarre._
EUROPA.
A beautiful maiden, daughter of Agenor, king of Phœnicia. While
gathering flowers she was carried off to Crete by Zeus, disguised as a
white bull.
Or sweet Europa’s mantle flew unclasp’d,
From oft her shoulder backward borne:
From one hand droop’d a crocus: one hand grasp’d
The mild bull’s golden horn.
She was worshipped in Crete under the name of Hellotis, and a festival
called Hellotia was held in her honour, at which her bones were carried
surrounded by wreaths of myrtle.
_Palace of Art._
EUROPE.
_Locksley Hall_;
_Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington_;
_Third of February_;
_To Rev. F. D. Maurice_;
_Defence of Lucknow_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Becket_;
_The Foresters_.
EUSTACE.
An artist--a very muscular and well-made person.
My Eustace might have sat for Hercules;
So muscular he spread, so broad of breast.
Along with an artist friend they went to see the gardener’s daughter.
Eustace painted Juliet, fell in love with her, and after a year had
passed married her.
_Gardener’s Daughter._
EVA.
Daughter of farmer Steer, and sister of Dora Steer. Under a promise
of marriage, she was seduced by Philip Edgar, a wealthy gentleman.
She ran away, leaving a letter to the effect that she would drown
herself. At the news of her disgrace the old father worked himself into
a fury which subsided into paralysis. After many years’ absence Edgar
returned under the name of Harold, but on account of his beard passed
unrecognized. Dobson, a farmer who was himself in love with Dora Steer,
suspected him, but Edgar showed him a newspaper cutting of his father’s
death, which he easily passed off as his own. Edgar made love to Dora,
who was easily won, when news arrived that a lady had been run over
in a neighbouring lane. The injured lady, who was nursed by Dora, was
none other than Eva, who yearned for her father’s forgiveness, but
the old man was too troubled with his disease to understand. Edgar and
Eva eventually met, and Dora learned who her lover really was. At the
sight of the meeting Eva fell dead, and over her sister’s dead body
Dora cursed the man, who hoped by marrying her to make amends for Eva’s
seduction.
_Promise of May._
EVANGEL.
= The Gospels.
Heaven-sweet Evangel, ever-living word,
Who whilome speaking to the South in Greek
About the soft Mediterranean shores,
_Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham._
EVANGELIST.
Behold a man raised up by Christ!
The rest remaineth unreveal’d;
He told it not; or something seal’d
The lips of that Evangelist.
= St. John.
_In Memoriam._
EVE.
_Day-Dream_;
_Maud_;
_Becket_.
EVELYN.
One of two sisters--the other being Edith. She married her sister’s
former lover, but was quite unconscious of the fact, which was only
made known to her after her sister’s death. The news caused some
estrangement between husband and wife. During the second year of her
married life she died.
_Sisters (Evelyn and Edith)._
EVERARD.
EVERARD HALL.
A poet. While at college he wrote an epic about king Arthur, but
thinking that
nothing new was said, or else
Something so said ’twas nothing--
destroyed it. His college friend, Francis Allen inquired later as to
what had become of it. He replied that considering it of small value he
had destroyed it.
‘these twelve books of mine
Were faint Homeric echoes, nothing-worth,
Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt.’
Francis had however, rescued the eleventh book from the hearth, and
forthwith produced it
‘But I,’
Said Francis, ‘pick’d the eleventh from this hearth
And have it; keep a thing, its use will come.
I hoard it as a sugar-plum for Holmes.’
_The Epic_;
_Morte d’Arthur_.
EVERGREEN.
A plant that remains green all the year, as the laurel and the ivy.
_Enoch Arden_;
_Spiteful Letter_;
_Gareth and Lynette_.
EWE.
EWE-LAMB.
A female sheep.
_The Princess_;
_Becket_.
EXCALIBUR.
King Arthur’s magic sword. It meant cut-steel and would cut through
iron or steel; in poetic language, it is called a sword as its blade
flashed like fire. It was given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake, and
she was nine years in the shaping of it, sitting in the deeps upon the
hidden bases of the hills.
Arthur and his enchanter Merlin rode one day by a broad lake, and
afar out in the midst of the lake an arm clad in white samite rose
from out of the water and held up a fair sword. Then came the Lady of
the Lake moving upon the water. ‘Enter into yonder barge,’ she said,
‘and row to the sword and take it and the scabbard.’
Tappan: _Heroes of the Middle Ages._
It was so bright in his enemies’ eyes, that it gave light equal to
thirty torches. Tennyson in his _Coming of Arthur_ described it:
‘There likewise I beheld Excalibur
Before him at his crowning borne, the sword
That rose from out the bosom of the lake,
And Arthur row’d across and took it--rich
With jewels, elfin, Urim, on the hilt,
Bewildering heart and eye--the blade so bright
That men are blinded by it--
It was by this sword that Arthur overcame his enemies in battle. After
receiving his wound in the last weird battle in the west, king Arthur
commanded sir Bedivere to take the sword and return it to the Lady of
the Lake.
But now delay not: take Excalibur,
And fling him far into the middle mere:
Watch what thou seëst, and lightly bring me word.’
Twice did sir Bedivere go to the pool and twice did his heart fail him,
for instead of flinging the brand into the water he hid it. Returning
to the dying king and being questioned as to what he had seen, replied:
‘I heard the ripple washing in the reeds,
And the wild water lapping on the crag.’
but the king detecting the knight’s deception threateningly commanded
him to fulfil his task, whereupon the knight went to the lake, and
seizing the sword threw it into the water.
But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm
Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,
And caught him by the hilt, and brandish’d him
Three times, and drew him under in the mere.
_Morte d’ Arthur_;
_Coming of Arthur_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Holy Grail_;
_Last Tournament_;
_Passing of Arthur_.
EXETER (Dean of).
_Queen Mary._
EYE.
A Castle.
My lord, the King demands three hundred marks,
Due from his castles of Beckhamstead and Eye
When thou whereof wast warden.
_Becket._
FAIR-HANDS.
According to Malory, a nickname given by sir Kay to sir Gareth when he
was a kitchen-scullion at the court of king Arthur.
And since he hath no name, I shall give him a name that shall be
Beaumains, that is Fair-hands.
Malory: _Morte d’Arthur, Book VII. chap i._
Tennyson in his Gareth and Lynette makes sir Kay address sir Lancelot
whilst referring to sir Gareth:
fair and fine, forsooth!
Sir Fine-face, Sir Fair-hands? but see thou to it
That thine own fineness, Lancelot, some fine day
Undo thee not--and leave my man to me.’
_Gareth and Lynette._
FALCON.
A bird of prey formerly trained to the pursuit of game.
_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Happy_;
_The Falcon_;
_Harold_.
FALCON, THE.
Name of a ship.
For a huge sea smote every soul from the decks of _The Falcon_ but
one.
_The Wreck._
FANNY.
The name of a song.
Fanny be the naäme i’ the song, but I swopt it fur _she_.
_Promise of May._
FATHER PHILIP.
= Philip Ray.
_Enoch Arden._
FAUN.
The symbol of a drunkard.
Arise and fly
The reeling Faun, the sensual feast;
Move upward, working out the beast,
And let the ape and tiger die.
_Lucretius_;
_In Memoriam_.
FAUNUS.
In Roman mythology the grandson of Saturn, and the god of fields
and shepherds. Upon the introduction of Greek mythology Faunus was
identified with Pan the protector of flocks and herds. Two festivals
were held annually in his honour in the temple on the island in the
Tiber, when the peasants brought their simple offerings.
‘But who was he, that in the garden snared
Picus and Faunus, rustic Gods?
_Lucretius._
FEDERIGO.
FEDERIGO DEGLI ALBERIGHI.
An impoverished nobleman, in love with a wealthy widow, the lady
Giovanna. She had a rival--his favourite falcon--for which the count
had a strange affection, the bird at times being as dear to him as
his mistress. The son of the lady Giovanna fell sick, and yearned
for the count’s falcon. The lady paid a visit to the count at the
luncheon hour, with the object of begging the bird from him; but the
scanty provision of the larder being insufficient for the meal, the
count ordered his foster-brother Filippo to kill the falcon and have
it cooked for the lady. When the lunch was spread she could not eat
on account of her anxiety for her request; but when she learned that
her lover had killed his favourite bird in order to entertain her, she
confessed her love for him, and happiness ensued.
_The Falcon._
FERDINAND.
the fifth of Aragon, second of Aragon and Sicily, and third of Naples,
born at Sos in Aragon; married Isabella of Castile, sister of Henry
IV, a step by which these ancient kingdoms were united. It was during
his reign that Columbus sailed from Spain on his voyages of discovery,
Ferdinand granting him three ships for the purpose.
_Columbus._
FERIA.
A Spanish count who came to England with Philip II as one of his
ministers. Married in 1558 to Jane Dormer, second daughter of sir
William Dormer. He was a bigoted Catholic, and an enemy of Elizabeth,
and notwithstanding his apparently friendly speeches, urged Philip to
an armed interference in England. In a letter full of friendliness
Philip announced to Elizabeth that Feria’s services were required in
Flanders, and accordingly he left England. He died in August 1571.
_Queen Mary._
FERN.
The popular name of the order of cryptogamic plants called _Filices_.
_Edwin Morris_;
_Talking Oak_;
_Enoch Arden_;
_The Brook_;
_The Princess_;
_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Pelleas and Ettarre_;
_Last Tournament_;
_Sisters (Evelyn and Edith)_;
_Harold_.
FERRAR (Robert E.)
Bishop of St. David’s. Was an Augustinian Canon and monk of St. Mary’s
Priory, Oxford; became a convert to the reformed religion, but was
compelled to recant; created bishop of St. David’s by Edward VI;
deprived 1554, and being charged by Gardiner with having violated his
monastic vow was burnt to death, 1555.
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.
_Queen Mary._
FIGTREE.
A small tree, with lobed, rough and deciduous leaves, cultivated in
warm climates for the sake of its fruit.
_The Princess._
FILIPPO.
Foster-brother to count Federigo degli Alberighi.
_The Falcon._
FINE-FACE.
According to Tennyson sir Kay was addressing sir Lancelot, but
referring to sir Gareth, who was a kitchen-scullion at the palace of
king Arthur.
fair and fine, forsooth!
Sir Fine-face, Sir Fair-hands? but see thou to it
That thine own fineness, Lancelot, some fine day
Undo thee not--and leave my man to me.’
_Gareth and Lynette._
FINN.
And we wallow’d in beds of lilies, and chanted the triumph of Finn,
According to tradition an Irish leader of the third century, and the
son of Cumall the hero of the _Ossianic tales_. After his defeat in
County Meath he escaped, but was slain soon afterwards at Athbrea.
Other authorities say he did not die but passed to the blessed land. In
this, as in many other respects, he resembled the British king Arthur.
_Voyage of Maeldune._
FIR.
The name of several species of cone-bearing trees, some of them valued
for their timber and others for their resin.
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Lover’s Tale_.
FIRE-FLY.
A name applied to many phosphorescent insects, some giving forth a
steady light, others flashing light intermittently.
_Locksley Hall_;
_The Princess_.
FISHER (JOHN).