CALENDERS 
 
 
sisters," told his tale in the hearing of the 
caliph Haroun-al-Raschid.-The Arabian 
Nights. 
   Tale of the Second Calender. No names 
given. This calender, like the first, was 
the son of a king. On his way to India he 
was attacked by robbers, and though he 
contrived to escape, he lost all his effects. 
In his flight he came to a large city, where 
he encountered a tailor, who gave him food 
and lodging. In order to earn a living, he 
turned woodman for the nonce, and acci- 
dentally discovered an underground pal- 
ace, in which lived a beautiful lady, con- 
fined there by an evil genius. With a view 
of liberating her, he kicked down the 
talisman, when the genius appeared, killed 
the lady, and turned the prince into an 
ape. As an ape he was taken on board 
ship, and transported to a large commer- 
cial city, where his penmanship recom- 
mended him to the sultan, who made him 
his vizier. The sultan's daughter under- 
took to disenchant him and restore him to 
his proper form; but to accomplish this 
she had to fight with the malignant genius. 
She succeeded in killing the genius, and 
restoring the enchanted prince; but re- 
ceived such severe injuries in the struggle 
that she died, and a spark of fire which 
flew into the right eye of the prince de- 
stroyed it. The sultan was so heart-broken 
at the death of his only child, that he 
insisted on the prince quitting the king- 
dom without delay. So he assumed the 
garb of a calender, and being received 
into the hospitable house of "the three 
sisters," told his tale in the hearing of the 
caliph Haroun-al-Raschid.-- The Arabian 
Nights. 
  Tale of the Third Calender. This tale is 
given under the word AGIB. 
  " I am called Agib," he says, "and am the son 
of a king whose name was Cassib."--Arabian 
Nights. 
 
 
  Calepine (Sir), the knight attached to 
Sere'na (canto 3). Seeing a bear carrying 
off a child, he attacked it, and squeezed it 
to death, then committed the babe to the 
care of Matilde, wife of sir Bruin. As 
Matilde had no child of her own, she 
adopted it (canto 4).-Spenser, Fa~ry 
Queen, vi. (1596). 
  *** Upton says, "the child" in this inci- 
dent is meant for M'Mahon, of Ireland, and 
that "Mac Mahon" means the "son of a 
bear." He furthermore says that the 
M'Mahons were descended from the Fitz- 
Ursulas, a noble English family. 
 
  Ca'les (2 syl.). So gipsies call them- 
selves. 
     Beltran Cruzado, count of the Cales. 
           Longfellow, The Spanish Student. 
  Calf-skin. Fools and jesters used to 
wear a calf-skin coat buttoned down the 
back, and hence Faulconbridge says inso- 
lently to the arch-duke of Austria, who 
had acted very basely towards Richard 
Lion-heart: 
  Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, 
  And hang a calf-skin on those recreant limbs. 
  Shakespeare, King John, act ii. sc. 1, (1596). 
 
  Cal'ianax, a humorous old lord, father 
of Aspatia, the troth-plight wife of Amin'- 
tor. It is the death of Aspatia whioh 
gives name to the drama.-Beaumont and 
Fletcher, The Maid's Tragedy (1610). 
 
  Cal'iban, a savage, deformed slave of 
Prospero (the rightful duke of Milan and 
father of Miranda). Caliban is the "freck- 
led whelp" of the witch Syc'orax. Mrs. 
Shelley's "Frankenstein" is a sort of Cal- 
iban.-Shakespeare, The Tempest (1609). 
  "Caliban" . . .. is all earth . . . he has the 
dawnings of understanding without reason or the 
moral sense . . . this advance to the intellectual 
faculties without the moral sense is marked by 
the appearance of vice.-Coleridge. 
 
 
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