THIRTY YEARS' WAR 
 
 
lics  of Germany, terminated by the 
"Peace of Westphalia." The war arose 
thus: The emperor of Austria interfered 
in the struggle between the Protestants 
and Catholics, by depriving the Protestants 
of Bohemia of their religious privileges; 
in consequence of which the Protestants 
flew to arms. After the contest had been 
going on for some years, Richelieu joined 
the Protestants (1635), not from any love 
of their cause, but solely to humiliate 
Austria and Spain (1618-1648). 
  The Peloponnesian war between Athens 
and Sparta is called "The Thirty Years' 
War. 
 
  Thisbe (2 syl.), a beautiful Babylonian 
maid, beloved by Pyramus, her next-door 
neighbor. As their parents forbade their 
marriage, they contrived to hold inter- 
course with each other through a chink in 
the garden wall. Once they agreed to 
meet at the tomb of Ninus. Thisb6 was 
first at the trysting-place, but, being 
scared by a lion, took to flight, and acci- 
dentally dropped her robe, which the lion 
tore and stained with blood. Pyramus, 
seeing the blood-stained robe, thought 
that the lion had eaten Thisbe, and so 
killed himself. When Thisbe returned 
and saw her lover dead, she killed herself 
also. Shakespeare has burlesqued this 
pretty tale in his Midsummer Night's 
Dream (1592). 
 
   Thom'alin, a shepherd who laughed to 
 scorn the notion of love, but was ulti- 
 mately entangled in its wiles. He tells 
 Willy that one day, hearing a rustling in 
 a bush, he discharged an arrow, when up 
 flew Cupid into a tree. A battle ensued 
 between them, and when the shepherd, 
 having spent all his arrows, ran away, 
 Cupid shot him in the heel. Thomalin 
 did not much heed the wound at first, but 
 
 
soon it festered inwardly and rankled 
daily more and more.-Spenser, Shep- 
heardes Calendar, iii. (1579). 
  Thomalin is again introduced in Eel. 
vii., when he inveighs against the Catho- 
lic priests in general, and the shepherd 
Palinode (3 syl.) in particular. This ec- 
logue could not have been written before 
1578, as it refers to the sequestration of 
Grindal, archbishop of Canterbury in that 
year. 
 
  Thomas (Monsieur), the fellow-travel- 
ler of Val'lntine. Valentine's niece, Mary, 
is in  love with  him.-Beaumont and 
Fletcher, Mons. Thomas (1619). 
 
  Thomas (Sir), a dogmatical, prating, 
self-sufficient squire, whose judgments 
are but "justices' justice."--Crabbe, Bor- 
ough, x. (1810). 
 
  Thomas A Kempis, the pseudonym of 
Jean  Charlier de  Gerson  (1363-1429). 
Some say, of Thomas Hilmmerlein Male6- 
lus (1380-1471). 
 
  Thomas the Rhymer or "Thomas of 
Erceldoun," an ancient Scottish bard. 
His name was Thomas Learmont, and he 
lived in the days of Wallace (thirteenth 
century). 
  *** Thomas the Rhymer, and Thomas 
Rymer were totally different persons. 
The latter was an historiographer, who 
compiled The Fcadera (1638-1713). 
 
  Thomas (Winifred), beautiful coquette, 
who wins Henry Vane's heart only to 
trifle with it, in Frederic Jesup Stimson's 
novel, The Crime of Henry Vane (1884). 
 
  Thopas (Sir), a native of Poperyng, in 
Flanders; a capital sportsman, archer, 
wrestler, and runner. Sir Thopas re- 
 
 
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