ESPRIELLA 
 
 
a manner of kind that whoso handleth them he 
shall have so much courage that he shall never 
be weary, and he shall not think on joy nor 
sorrow that he hath had, but only on the thing 
he beholdeth before him.-Sir T. Malory, History 
of Prince Arthur, iii. 84, (1470). 
 
  Erudite   (Most).   Marcus  Terentius 
Varro is called "the most erudite of the 
Romans" (B.c. 116-27). 
 
  Er'ythre, modesty     personified, the 
virgin page of Parthen'ia or maiden of 
chastity, in The Purple Island, by Phineas 
Fletcher (1633). Fully described in canto 
x. (Greek, cruthros, "red," from eruthriao, 
"to blush.") 
 
   Erysichthon [Erri. sik'. thon], a grand- 
 son of Neptune, who was punished by 
 Cer6s with insatiable hunger, for cutting 
 down some trees in a grove sacred to that 
 goddess. (See ERISICHTHON.) 
 
   Es'calus, an ancient, kind-hearted lord 
 in the deputation of the duke of Vienna.- 
 Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603). 
 
   Es'calus, Prince of Vero'na.-Shake- 
 speare, Romeo and Juliet (1598). 
 
   Es'canes (3 syl.), one of the lords of 
 Tyre.- Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince oj 
 Tyre (1608). 
 
   Escobar (Mons. L'), the French name 
 for a fox, so called from M. Escobar the 
 probabilist, whence also the verb esco- 
 barder, "to play the fox," "to play fast 
 and loose." 
   The French have a capital name for the fox, 
 namely, M. L'Escobar, which may be trans- 
 lated the "shuffler," or more freely, "sly boots." 
 -The Daily News, March 25, 1878. 
 
   Escotillo (i.e. little M[ichael Scott), con- 
 sidered by the common people as a magi- 
 
 
cian, because he possessed more know- 
ledge of natural and experimental philo- 
sophy than his contemporaries. 
 
  Es'dale (Mr.), a surgeon at Madras.- 
Sir W. Scott, The Surgeon's Daughter 
(time, George II.). 
 
  Es'ings, the king of Kent. So called 
from Eisc, the father of Hengist, as the 
Tuscans receive their name from Tuscus, 
the Romans from Romulus, the Cecrop'- 
idm from Cecrops, the Britons from Brutus, 
and so on.-Ethelwerd, Chron., ii. 
 
  Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy-girl, who, 
with tambourine and goat, dances in the 
place before Notre Dame de Paris, and is 
looked on as a witch. Quasimodo con- 
ceals her for a time in the church, but 
after various adventures she is gibbeted. 
-Victor Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris. 
 
  Esmeralda; humbly-born     heroine  of 
Frances Hodgson Burnett's work of same 
name. The story has been dramatized 
and played with great effect. 
 
   Esmond (Henry), a chivalrous cavalier 
 in the reign of Queen Anne; the hero of 
 Thackeray's novel called Henry Esmond 
 (1852). 
 
   Esplan'dian, son    of Am'adis   and 
 Oria'na. Montalvo has made him the 
 subject of a fifth book to the four original 
 books of Amadis of Gaul (1460). 
 The description of the most furious battles, 
 carried on with all the bloody-mindedness of an 
 Esplandian or a Bobadil [Ben Jonson, Every 
 Man  in  his  Humor].-Encyc. Brit., Art. 
 " Romance." 
 
   Esprielra (Manuel Alvarez), the apoc- 
 ryphal name of Robert Southey. The 
 poet-laureate pretends that certain "letters 
 from England," written by this Spaniard, 
 
 
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