Volpone, a rich Venetian nobleman, without children, feigns to be
dying, in order to draw gifts from those who pay court to him under
the expectation of becoming his heirs. Mosca, his knavish confederate,
persuades each in turn that he is named for the inheritance, and by
this means exacts many a costly present. At the end, Volpone is
betrayed, his property forfeited, and he is sentenced to lie in the
worst hospital in all Venice.
Jonson has three great comedies: _Volpone_, or _The Fox_, _Epicene, or
The Silent Woman_, and _The Alchemist_.--R. Chambers, _English
Literature_, i. 192.
=Volscius= (_Prince_), a military hero, who falls in love with the
fair Parthenŏpê, and disputes with Prince Prettyman upon the
superiority of his sweetheart to Cloris, whom Prince Prettyman sighs
for.--Duke of Buckingham, _The Rehearsal_ (1671).
Why, this is worse than Prince Volscius in love!--Sir W. Scott.
Oh, be merry, by all means. Prince Volscius in love! Ha, ha, ha!--W.
Congreve, _The Double Dealer_ (1694).
=Volsunga Saga= (_The_), a collection of tales in verse about the
early Teutonic heroes, compiled by Sæmund Sigfusson in the eleventh
century. A prose version was made some 200 years later by Snorro
Sturleson. This saga forms a part of the _Rhythmical_, or _Elder
Edda_, and of the _Prose_, or _Younger Edda_.
=Voltaire= (_The German_), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1838).
Christoph Martin Wieland is also called “The German Voltaire”
(1733-1813).
_Voltaire_ (_The Polish_), Ignatius Krasicki (1774-1801).
_Voltaire_ (_The Russian_), Alex P. Sumorokof (1727-1777).
=Vol´timand=, a courtier in the court of Claudius, king of
Denmark.--Shakespeare, _Hamlet_ (1596).
=Volumnia= was the _wife_ of Coriolanus, and Vetu´ria his _mother_;
but Shakespeare makes Virgilia the wife, and Volumnia the
mother.--_Coriolanus_ (1610).
The old man’s merriment in Menenius; the lofty lady’s dignity in
Volumnia; the bridal modesty in Virgilia; the patrician and military
haughtiness in Coriolanus; the plebeian malignity and tribunitian
insolence in Brutus and Sicinius, make a very pleasing and interesting
variety.--Dr. Johnson.
=Voluspa Saga= (_The_), the prophecy of Völa. It contains between 200
and 300 verses, and resembles the Sibylline books of ancient Rome. The
_Voluspa_ Saga gives, in verse, a description of chaos, the formation
of the world, the creation of all animals (including dwarfs and
giants, genii and devils, fairies and goblins), the final
conflagration of the world and its renewal, when it will appear in
celestial beauty, like the new Jerusalem described in the book of the
_Revelation_.
=Vorst= (_Peterkin_), the sleeping sentinel at Powys Castle.--Sir W.
Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.).
=Vortigern=, counsel of the Gewisseans, who crowned Constans, king of
Britain, although he was a monk, but treacherously contrived to get
him assassinated afterwards, and then usurped the crown. He married
Rowen’a, daughter of Hengist, and was burnt to death in a tower set on
fire during a siege by Ambrosius.--Geoffrey, _British History_, vi. 6;
viii. 1 (1142).
_Vortigern_, a drama put forward by Henry W. Ireland (1796) as a newly
discovered play by Shakespeare. It was brought out at Drury Lane
Theatre, by John Kemble. Dr. Parr declared it to be his opinion that
the play was genuine.
=Vortigern and Hengist.= The account of the massacre of the
Long-Knives, given by Geoffrey, in his _British History_, vi. 15,
differs greatly from that of the _Welsh Triads_ (See STONEHENGE, A
TROPHY). Geoffrey says that Hengist came over with a large army, at
which King Vortigern was alarmed. To allay this suspicion, Hengist
promised to send back all the men that the king did not require, and
begged Vortigern to meet him in conference at Ambrius (_Ambresbury_),
on May-day. Hengist, in the meantime, secretly armed a number of his
soldiers with “long-knives,” and told them to fall on the Britons
during the conference, when he uttered the words, “Nemet oure Saxas.”
This they did, and 460 “barons and consuls” fell. It does not appear
from this narrative that the slaughter was due “to the treachery of
Vortigern,” but was wholly the work of Hengist. Geoffrey calls the
earl of Gloucester “Eldol,” and not “Eidiol.”
=Vortigern’s Tower=, like Penelopê’s web, is a work ever beginning,
and never ending. Vortigern was told by his magicians to build a
strong tower for his own security; so he commanded his workmen to
build one on Mount Erir, but whatever they built one day, was wholly
swallowed up by the earth during the night.--Geoffrey, _British
History_, vi. 17 (1142).
=Vos non Vobis.= The tale is that Virgil wrote an epigram on Augustus
Cæsar, which so much pleased the emperor that he desired to know who
was the author. As Virgil did not claim the lines, one Bathyllus
declared they were his. This displeased Virgil, and he wrote these
four words, _Sic vos non vobis_ ... four times as the commencement of
four lines, and Bathyllus was requested to finish them. This he could
not do, but Virgil completed the lines thus:
Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves;
Sic vos non vobis villera fertis oves;
Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes;
Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.
Not for yourselves your nests ye song-birds build;
Not for yourselves ye sheep your fleeces bear;
Not for yourselves your hives ye bees have filled;
Not for yourselves ye oxen draw the share.
=Vox et præterea Nihil.= A Spartan, pulling a nightingale, and finding
only a very small body, exclaimed, φωνὰ τύ τις ἐσσι, καὶ οὐδὲν ἄλλο
(“Voice art thou, and nothing more”).--Plutarch, _Apophthegmata
Laconica_.
=Vox= (_Valentine_), enterprising ventriloquist, who figures in the
novel called by his name.--Henry Cochton (1840).
=Vran= (_Bendigeid_, _i.e._, “Blessed”), king of Britain, and father
of Caradawc (_Caractacus_). He was called “Blessed,” because he
introduced Christianity into this island. Vran had shared the
captivity of his son, and had learned the Christian faith during his
seven years’ detention in Rome.
Vran or Bran the Blessed, son of Llyr, first brought the faith of
Christ to the nation of the Cymry, from Rome, where he was seven years
a hostage for his son, Caradawc, whom the Romans made prisoner,
through craft and the treachery of Aregwedd Fôeddawg [_Cartismandua_]
_Welsh Triads_, xxxv.
=Vran’s Caldron= restored to life whoever was put therein, but the
revivified never recovered speech. (See MEDEA’S KETTLE.)
“I will give thee,” said Bendigeid Vran, “a caldron, the property of
which is that if one of thy men be slain to-day, and be cast therein
to-morrow, he will be as well as he was at the best, except that he
will not regain his speech.”--_The Mabinogion_ (“Branwen,” etc.,
twelfth century).
=Vrience= (_King_), one of the knights of the Round Table. He married
Morgan le Fay, half-sister of King Arthur.--Sir T. Malory, _History of
Prince Arthur_ (1470).
=Vulcan= was the lawful offspring of Jupiter and Juno, but the former,
upon beholding his homely son, kicked him out of heaven.
“From morn
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer’s day, and with the setting sun
Drop’t from the zenith like a falling star
On Lemnos, the Ægean isle.”
Milton, _Paradise Lost_, I.
His leg was broken, and he remained lame forever after. He was a
blacksmith, and employed by the Cyclops to forge their thunderbolts.
=Vulcan’s Badge=, the badge of cuckoldom. Vulcan was the husband of
Venus, with whom Mars intrigued.
We know
Better than he have worn Vulcan’s badge.
Shakespeare, _Titus Andronicus_, act ii. sc. 1 (1593).
=Vulnerable Parts.=
ACHILLES was vulnerable only in the heel. When his mother, Thetis,
dipped him in the river Styx, she held him by the heel, and the water
did not touch this part.--_A Post-Homeric Story._
AJAX, son of Telamon, could be wounded only behind the neck; some say
only in one spot of the breast. As soon as he was born Alcīdês covered
him with a lion’s skin, which rendered the whole body invulnerable,
except in a part where the skin had been pierced by Herculês.
ANTÆOS was wholly charmed against death so long as he touched the
earth.--Lucan, _Pharsalia_, iv.
FERRACUTE (3 _syl._) was only vulnerable in the navel.--Turpin,
Chronicle of Charlemagne.
He is called Ferrau, son of Landfūsa, by Ariosto, in his _Orlando
Furioso_.
MEGISSOGWON was only vulnerable at one tuft of hair on his head. A
woodpecker revealed the secret to Hiawatha, who struck him there and
killed him.--Longfellow, _Hiawatha_, ix.
ORILLO was impervious to death unless one particular hair was cut off;
wherefore Astolpho, when he encountered the robber, only sought to cut
off this magic hair.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_.
ORLANDO was invulnerable except in the sole of his foot, and even
there nothing could injure him except the prick of a pin.--ITALIAN
CLASSIC FABLE.
SIEGFRIED was invulnerable except in one spot between the shoulders,
on which a leaf stuck when he dipped his body in the dragon’s
blood.--_The Nibelungen Lied._
⁂ The Promethĕan unguent rendered the body proof against fire and
wounds of any sort. Medea gave Jason some of this unguent.--_Classic
Story._
=Vulture= (_The Black_), emblem of the ancient Turk, as the crescent
is of the modern Ottoman empire.
And that black vulture, which with dreadful wing
O’ershadows half the earth, whose dismal sight
Frightened the Muses from their native spring,
Already stoops, and flags with weary wing.
Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, vii. (1633).
=Vulture Hopkins.= John Hopkins was so called from his rapacious mode
of acquiring money. He was the architect of his own fortune, and died
worth £300,000 (in 1732).
⁂ Pope refers to John Hopkins in the lines:
When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend
The wretch who, living, saved a candle end.
=Wabster= (_Michael_), a citizen of Perth.--Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid
of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.).
=Wabun=, son of Mudjekeewis; the Indian Apollo. He chases darkness
over hill and dale with his arrows, wakes man, and brings the morning.
He married Wabun-Annung, who was taken to heaven at death, and became
the morning star.--Longfellow, _Hiawatha_ (1855).
=Wabun-Annung=, the morning star, a country maiden who married Wabun,
the Indian Apollo.--Longfellow, _Hiawatha_ (1855).
=Wackbairn= (_Mr._), the schoolmaster at Libberton.--Sir W. Scott,
_Heart of Midlothian_ (time, George II.).
=Wackles= (_Mrs._ and the _Misses_), of Chelsea, keepers of a “Ladies’
Seminary.” English grammar, composition, geography, and the use of
dumb-bells, by Miss Melissa Wackles; writing, arithmetic, dancing,
music, and general fascination, by Miss Sophy Wackles; needlework,
marking, and samplery, by Miss Jane Wackles; corporal punishment and
domestic duties, by Mrs. Wackles. Miss Sophy was a fresh,
good-natured, buxom girl of 20, who owned to a soft impeachment for
Mr. Swiveller, but as he held back, she married Mr. Cheggs, a
well-to-do market gardener.--C. Dickens, _The Old Curiosity Shop_,
viii. (1840).
=Wade= (_Miss_), a handsome young woman, brought up by her
grandmother, with a small independence. She looked at every act of
kindness, benevolence, and charity with a jaundiced eye, and
attributed it to a vile motive. Her manner was suspicious,
self-secluded, and repellant; her temper proud, fiery, and
unsympathetic. Twice she loved--in one case she jilted her lover, in
the other she was herself jilted. The latter was Henry Gowan, who
married Pet, the daughter of Mr. Meagles, and in consequence of this
marriage Miss Wade hated Gowan, his wife, the Meagleses, and all their
friends. She enticed Tattycoram away from Mr. Meagles, and the two
beautiful young women lived together for a time, nursing their hatred
of man to keep it warm.--C. Dickens, _Little Dorrit_, ii. 21 (1857).
=Waddell= (_James_), the Blind Preacher, as he was familiarly called,
was a marked character in the central counties of Virginia in the
latter part of the eighteenth century. He performed all the offices of
a clergyman up to the time of his death, preaching with power and
unction every week. “I have never,” says William Wirt, “seen in any
other orator such a union of simplicity and majesty. He has not a
gesture, an attitude or an accent, to which he does not seem forced by
the sentiment which he is expressing.... He is not only a very polite
scholar, but a man of extensive and profound erudition.”--William
Wirt, _The British Spy_ (1803).
=Wadman= (_Widow_), a comely widow, who would full fain secure Uncle
Toby for her second husband. Amongst other wiles, she pretends to have
something in her eye, and gets Uncle Toby to look for it. As the
kind-hearted hero of Namur does so, the gentle widow gradually places
her face nearer and nearer the captain’s mouth, under the hope that he
will kiss and propose.--Sterne, _The Life and Opinions of Tristram
Shandy_ (1759).
=Wagner=, the faithful servant and constant companion of Faust, in
Marlowe’s drama called _The Life and Death of Dr. Faustus_ (1589); in
Goethe’s _Faust_ (German, 1798); and in Gounod’s opera of _Faust_
(1859).
Wagner is a type of the pedant. He sacrifices himself to books as
Faust does to knowledge ... the dust of folios is his element,
parchment the source of his inspiration.... He is one of those who, in
the presence of Niagara, would vex you with questions about
arrow-headed inscriptions ... or the origin of the Pelasgi.--Lewes.
=Wa´hela=, Lot’s wife, who was confederate with the men of Sodom, and
gave them notice when a stranger came to visit her husband. Her sign
was smoke by day and fire by night. Wahela was turned into a pillar of
salt.--Jallâlo´ddin, _Al Zamakh_.
=Wa´ila= (3 _syl._), wife of Noah, who told the people her husband was
distraught.
The wife of Noah [_Wâïla_] and the wife of Lot [_Wâhela_] were both
unbelievers, ... and it shall be said unto them at the last day,
“Enter ye into hell fire, with those who enter therein.”--_Al Korân_,
lxvi.
=Wainamoi´nen=, the Orpheus of Finnish mythology. His magic harp
performed similar wonders to that of Orpheus (2 _syl._). It was made
of the bones of a pike; that of Orpheus was of tortoiseshell. The
“beloved” of Wainamoinen was a treasure called Sampo, which was lost
as the poet reached the verge of the realms of darkness; the “beloved”
of Orpheus was Eurydi´cê, who was lost just as the poet reached the
confines of earth, after his descent into hell.
⁂ See Kalewala, _Rune_, xxii. It is very beautiful. An extract is
given in Baring Gould’s _Myths of the Middle Ages_, 440-444.
=Waitwell=, the lackey of Edward Mirabell, and husband of Foible,
governante of the household of Lady Wishfort. By his master’s request,
Waitwell personates Sir Roland, and makes love to Lady Wishfort, but
the trick is discovered before much mischief is done.--W. Congreve,
_The Way of the World_ (1700).
=Wakefield= (_Harry_), the English drover killed by Robin Oig.--Sir W.
Scott, _The Two Drovers_ (time, George III.).
=Wakeman= (_Sir George_), physician to Henrietta Maria, queen of
Charles I.--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.).
=Waldeck= (_Martin_), the miner, and hero of a story read by Lovel to
a picnic party at the ruins of St. Ruth’s Priory.--Sir W. Scott, _The
Antiquary_ (time, George III.).
=Walde´grave= (2 _syl._), leader of the British forces which joined
the Hurons in extirpating the Snake Indians, but he fell in the fray
(pt. i. 18).
_Julia Waldegrave_, wife of the above. She was bound to a tree with
her child by some of the Indians during the attack. Outalissi, a Snake
Indian, unbound them, took them home, and took care of them; but the
mother died. Her last request was that Outalissi would carry her child
to Albert of Wy´oming, her friend, and beg him to take charge of it.
_Henry Waldegrave_, the boy brought by Outalissi to Albert. After
staying at Wyoming for three years, his English friends sent for him
(he was then 12 years old). When grown to manhood, he returned to
Wyoming, and was married to Gertrude; but three months afterwards
Outalissi appeared, and told them that Brandt was coming with his
English soldiers to destroy the village. Both Albert and Gertrude
were shot in the attack; and Henry joined the army of
Washington.--Campbell, _Gertrude of Wyoming_ (1809).
=Waldemar Fitzurse= (_Lord_), a baron following Prince John of Anjou
(brother of Richard Cœur de Lion).--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time,
Richard I.).
=Waldstetten= (_The countess of_), a relative of the baron. He is one
of the characters in Donnerhugel’s narrative.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of
Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).
=Walk= (_Knave_) is meant for colonel Hewson, generally called “Walk,
Knave, Walk,” from a tract written by Edmund Gayton, to satirize the
party, and entitled _Walk, Knaves, Walk_.--S. Butler, _Hudibras_
(1663-78).
=Walker= (_Dr._), one of the three great quacks of the eighteenth
century, the others being Dr. Rock and Dr. Timothy Franks. Goldsmith,
in his _Citizen of the World_, has a letter (lxviii.) wholly upon
these three worthies (1759).
_Walker_ (_Helen_), the prototype of Jeanie Deans. Sir W. Scott caused
a tombstone to be erected over her grave in Irongray churchyard,
Kirkcudbright [_Ke.koo´.bry_].
_Walker_ (_Hookey_), John Walker, outdoor clerk to Longman, Clementi
and Co., Cheapside. He was noted for his hooked nose, and disliked for
his official duties, which were to see that the men came and left at
the proper hour, and that they worked during the hours of work. Of
course, the men conspired to throw discredit on his reports; and hence
when any one draws the “long-bow,” the hearer exclaims, “Hookey
Walker!” as much as to say, “I don’t believe it.”
=Walking Gentleman= (_A_). Thomas Colley Grattan published his
_Highways and Byeways_ under this signature (1825).
=Walking Stewart=, John Stewart, an English traveller, who walked
through Hindûstan, Persia, Nubia, Abyssinia, the Arabian Desert,
Europe, and the North American states; “crazy beyond the reach of
hellebore, yet sublime and divinely benignant.... He had seen more of
the earth’s surface, and had communicated more with the children of
the earth, than any man before or since.”--De Quincey, (1856).
=Walking-Stick= (_Henry VIII.’s_), the great Danish club shown in the
armory of the Tower.
=Walkingshaw= (_Miss_), mistress of the chevalier Charles Edward, the
Young Pretender.--Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.).
=Wallace’s Larder=, the dungeon of Ardrossan, in Ayrshire, where
Wallace had the dead bodies thrown when the garrison was surprised by
him in the reign of Edward I.
“Douglas’s Larder” is a similar phrase, meaning that horrible compound
of dead bodies, barrels of flour, meal, wheat, malt, wine, ale, and
beer, all mixed together in Douglas Castle, by the order of Lord James
Douglas, when, in 1306, the garrison was surprised by him.
=Wallenrode= (_The earl of_), an Hungarian crusader.--Sir W. Scott,
_The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.).
=Wallenstein= (_Max_), German baron and general, eminent in the Thirty
Years’ War. He was assassinated in 1634 by order of Ferdinand II. of
Germany.--Schiller, _Wallenstein_ (1799).
=Waller=, in love with Lydia, lady’s-maid to Widow Green. His love at
first was not honorable, because his aristocratic pride revolted at
the inferior social position of Lydia; but when he knew her real
worth, he loved her, proposed marriage, and found that she was the
sister of Trueworth, who had taken service to avoid an obnoxious
marriage.--S. Knowles, _The Love-Chase_ (1837).
=Waller’s Plot=, a plot organized in 1643 by Waller, the poet, against
the parliamentary party. The object was to secure the king’s children,
to seize the most eminent of the parliamentarians, to capture the
Tower, and resist all taxes imposed for the support of the
parliamentary army.
=Walley= (_Richard_), the regicide, whose story is told by Major
Bridgenorth (a roundhead) at his dinner-table.--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril
of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.).
=Walnut Web.= When the three princes of a certain king were sent to
find out “a web of cloth which would pass through the eye of a fine
needle,” the White Cat furnished the youngest of the three with one
spun by the cats of her palace.
The prince ... took out of his box a walnut, which he cracked ... and
saw a small hazel nut, which he cracked also ... and found therein a
kernel of wax.... In this kernel of wax was hidden a single grain of
wheat, and in the grain a small millet seed.... On opening the millet,
he drew out a web of cloth 400 yards long, and in it was woven all
sorts of birds, beasts, and fishes; fruits and flowers; the sun, moon,
and stars; the portraits of kings and queens, and many other wonderful
designs.--Comtesse D’Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ (“The White Cat,” 1682).
=Walpurgis=, saint who converted the Saxons to Christianity.
=Walpurgis Night.= May 1, when witches dance upon the Brocken in the
Hartz Mountains.
=Walsingham=, the affianced of Helen Mowbray. Deceived by appearances,
he believed that Helen was the mistress of Lord Athunree, and
abandoned her; but when he discovered his mistake he married her.--S.
Knowles, _Woman’s Wit, etc._ (1838).
_Walsingham_ (_Lord_) of Queen Elizabeth’s court.--Sir W. Scott,
_Kenilworth_ (time, Elizabeth).
=Walter=, marquis of Saluzzo, in Italy, and husband of Grisilda, the
peasant’s daughter (_q.v._).--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ (“The
Clerk’s Tale,” 1388).
⁂ This tale, of course, is allegorical; Lord Walter takes the place of
deity, and Grisilda typifies the true Christian. In all her
privations, in all her sorrows, in all her trials, she says to her
lord and master, “Thy will be done.”
_Walte_ (_Master_), “the hunchback,” guardian of Julia. A worthy man,
liberal and charitable, frank and honest, who turns out to be the earl
of Rochdale and father of Julia.--S. Knowles, _The Hunchback_ (1831).
=Walter Debree=, a Protestant clergyman, who, driven as he imagines,
by conscience, takes orders in the Roman Catholic Church. His wife
seeks him out and makes an eloquent appeal to him in the name of their
former love, their dead child, and their once common faith. His heart
and conscience thus aroused, combine to urge reconsideration of his
belief. He resolves to return to the Mother Church, and makes his
plans to take the Lord’s Supper with his wife on a certain Sabbath. On
his way to church, he is overtaken by a fierce snow-storm and buried
in the drifts. It is his lifeless body which is taken to the waiting
wife. “Is this all, Walter?” she sobbed. “Is this the end? Yes, and it
is a good end.... I did not seek you for myself. It never was for
myself!” The effort to subdue the human love to the Divine triumphed
in the midst of tears.--Robert Lowell, _The New Priest of Conception
Bay_ (1858).
=Walter= [=Furst=], father-in-law of Tell.--Rossini, _Guglielmo Tell_
(opera, 1829).
=Walter Hartwright=, drawing-teacher and lover of Laura Fairlie. When
the report of her death has been circulated by her husband, Sir
Percival Glyde, Walter unravels the plot, restores Laura to her
rightful place, and after the baronet’s death, marries her.--Wilkie
Collins, _The Woman in White_.
=Walter von der Vogelweide=, one of the German _minnesingers_,
flourished in 1206.
=Waltheof= (_The abbot_), abbot of St. Withold’s Priory.--Sir W.
Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.).
_Waltheof_ (_Father_), a grey friar, confessor to the duchess of
Rothesay.--Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.).
=Walton= (_Lord_), father of Elvi´ra, who promised his daughter in
marriage to Sir Richard Forth, a puritan officer; but Elvira had
already plighted her love to Lord Arthur Talbot, a cavalier. The
betrothal was set aside, and Elvira married Arthur Talbot at
last.--Bellini, _Il Puritani_ (opera, 1834).
_Walton_ (_Sir John de_), governor of Douglas Castle.--Sir W. Scott,
_Castle Dangerous_ (time, Henry I.).
=Wamba=, “the son of Witless,” the jester of Cedric, the Saxon, of
Rotherwood.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.).
=Wampum=, a string or belt of whelk-shells, current with the North
American Indians as a medium of exchange, and always sent as a present
to those with whom an alliance or treaty is made.
Peace be to thee! my words this belt approve.
Campbell, _Gertrude of Wyoming_, i. 14 (1809).
Our wampum league thy brethren did embrace.
Ibid, i. 15.