ZERBINETTE 
 
 
Ishmael, when Hagar was driven into the 
wilderness by Abraham. A bottle of this 
water is considered a very valuable pres- 
ent, even by princes. 
  There were also a great many bottles of water 
from the fountain of Zemzem, at Mecca.- 
Arabian Nights (" The Purveyor's StoryO). 
 
   Zenel'ophon, the beggar-girl who mar- 
ried King Cophet'ua of Africa. She is 
more    generally called  Penel'ophon.- 
Tennyson, King Cophetua and the Beggar- 
maid. 
 
   Zenobla, queen of Palmyra, who claimed 
the title of "Queen of the East." She 
was defeated by Aurelian and taken pris- 
oner in A.D. 273. 
 
  Zenobia, brillant and beautiful woman, 
the most striking figure in the group of 
remarkable   people who compose      the 
Blithedale Farm household. She has a 
dark history which she would forget in a 
later love. This fails her and she drowns 
herself. "Being the woman that she was, 
could Zenobia have forseen all these ugly 
circumstances of death, how ill it would 
become her . . . she would no more have 
committed the dreadful act than have ex- 
hibited herself to a public assembly in a 
badly-fitting garment. .... She was not 
quite simple in her death."-Nathaniel 
Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (1850). 
 
  Zeno'cia, daughter of Chari'no, and 
the chaste troth-plight wife of Arnoldo. 
While Arnoldo is wantonly loved by the 
rich Hippol'yta, Zenocia is dishonorably 
pursued by the governor, Count Clo'dio.- 
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Custom of 
the Country (1647). 
 
  Zephalinda, a young lady who has 
tasted the delights of a London season, 
 
 
but is taken back to her home in the 
country, to find enjoyment in needlework, 
dull aunts, and rooks. 
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, 
To morning walk, and prayers three hours a 
    day; 
To part her time 'twixt reading and Bohea, 
To muse, and spill her solitary tea, 
O'er her cold coffee trifle with her spoon, 
Count the slow clock and dine exact at noon. 
         Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount (1715). 
 
   Zeph'on, a cherub who detected Satan 
 squatting in the garden, and brought him 
 before Gabriel, the archangel. The word 
 means " searcher  of  secrets." Milton 
 makes him  "the guardian angel of para- 
 dise." 
 Ithuriel and Zephon, with winged speed 
 Search thro' this garden, leave unsearched no6 
    nook; 
 But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge, 
 Now laid perhaps asleep, secure of harm. 
              Milton, Paradise Lost (1665). 
 
   Zephyr. (See MORGANE.) 
 
   Zerbinette (3 syl.), the daughter of 
Argante (2 syl.), stolen from her parents 
by gypsies when four years old, and 
brought up by them. LUandre, the son of 
Seigneur G6ronte fell in love with her, and 
married her; but the gypsies would not' 
give her up without being paid £1500. 
Scapin wrung this money from G6ronte, 
pretending it was to ransom LUandre, who 
had been made a prisoner by some Turks 
who intended to sell him in Algiers for a 
slave unless his ransom was brought with- 
in two hours. The old man gave Scapin 
the money grudgingly, and Scapin passed 
it over to the gypsies, when a bracelet led 
to the discovery that Zerbinette was the 
daughter of Seigneur Argante, a friend of 
LUandre's father, and all parties were de- 
lighted at the different revelations.-Mo- 
liUre, Les Fourberies de Scapin (1671). 
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