COCKNEY 
 
 
  Cockney (Nicholas), a rich city grocer, 
brother of Barnacle. Priscilla Tomboy, 
of the West Indies, is placed under his 
charge for her education. 
  Walter Cockney, son of the grocer, in 
the shop. A conceited young prig, not 
yet out of the quarrelsome age. He makes 
boy-love to Priscilla Tomboy and Miss La 
Blond; but says he will "tell papa "if they 
cross him. 
   Penelope Cockney, sister of Walter.-The 
Romp (altered from Bickerstaff's Love in 
the City). 
 
  Coelebs' Wife, a bachelor's ideal of a 
model wife. Ccelebs is the hero of a novel, 
by Mrs. Hannah Moore, entitled Ceelebs in 
Search of a Wife (1809). 
In short, she was a walking calculation, 
  Miss Edgworth's novels stepping from their 
      covers, 
Or Mrs. Trimmer's books on education. 
  Or " Ccelebs' wife" set out in quest of lovers. 
             Byron, Don Juan, i. 16 (1819). 
 
  C(eur de Lion, Surname of Richard of 
England (1157--1199.) Also conferred upon 
Louis VIII. of France. 
 
  Coffin (Long Towi), the best sailor char- 
acter ever drawn. He is introduced in 
The Pilot, a novel by J. Fenimore Cooper. 
Cooper's novel has been dramatized by 
E. Fitzball, under the same name, and 
Long Tom Coffin preserves in the bur- 
letta his reckless daring, his unswerving 
fidelity, his simple-minded affection, and 
his love for the sea. 
  Cogia Houssain, the captain of forty 
thieves, outwitted by Morgiana, the slave. 
When, in the guise of a merchant, he was 
entertained by -Ali Baba, and refused to 
eat any salt, the suspicions of Morgiana 
was aroused, aud she soon detected him to 
be the captain of the forty thieves. After 
 
 
supper she amused her master and his 
guest with dancing; then playing with 
Cogia's dagger for a time, she plunged it 
suddenly into his heart and killed him.- 
Arabian Nights (" Ali Baba or the Forty 
Thieves "). 
 
  Col'ax.   Flattery personified in The 
Purple Island (1633), by Phineas Fletcher. 
Colax "all his words with sugar spices ... 
lets his tongue to sin, and takes rent of 
shame... His art [was] to hide and not 
to heal a sore." Fully described in canto 
viii.  (Greek, k~lax, "a    flatterer or 
fawner.") 
 
  Colbrand or Colebrond (2 syl.), the 
Danish giant, slain in the presence of 
King Athelstan, by Sir Guy of Warwick, 
just returned from a pilgrimage, still "in 
homely russet clad," and in his hand a 
hermit's staff." The combat is described 
at length by Drayton, in his Polyolbion, 
xii. 
One could scarcely bear his axe ... 
Whose squares were laid with plates, and riveted 
    with steel, 
And armed down along with pikes, whose hard- 
    ened points 
* . . had power to tear the joints 
Of cuirass or of mail. 
            Drayton, Polyolbion, xii. (1613). 
  Coldstream    (Sir Charles), the chief 
character in Charles Mathew's play called 
Used up. He is wholly cnnuy6, sees noth- 
ing to admire in anything; but is a living 
personification of mental inanity   and 
physical imbecility. 
 
  Cole (1 syl.), a legendary British king, 
described as "a merry o0l soul," fond of 
his pipe, fond of his glass, and fond of his 
"fiddlers three." There were two kings 
so called-Cole (or. Coll I.) was the prede- 
cessor of Porrex; but Coil II. was succeed- 
ed by Lucius, "the first British king who 
 
 
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