CLARINDA 
 
 
  *** "Estifania," in Rule a Wife and 
Have a Wife, by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 
   Clarin'da, a merry, good-humored, high- 
spirited lady, in love with Charles Frankly. 
The madcap Ranger is her cousin.-Dr. 
Hoadly, The Suspicious Husband (1747). 
 
   Clarinda of Robert Burns, was Mrs. 
Maclehose, who was alive in 1833. 
 
  Clar'ion, the son and heir of Muscarol. 
He was the fairest and most prosperous of 
all the race of flies. Aragnol, the son of 
Arachn6 (the spider), entertained a deep 
and secret hatred of the young prince, and 
set himself to destroy him; so, weaving a 
most curious net, Clarion was soon caught, 
and Aragnol gave him his death-wound by 
piercing him under the left wing.-Spen- 
ser Muiopotnos or The Butterfly's Fate 
(1590). 
  Claris'sa, wife of Gripe the scrivener. 
A lazy, lackadaisical, fine city lady, who 
thinks "a woman must be of mechanic 
mold who is either troubled or pleased 
with anything her husband can do" (act 
i. 3). She has "wit and beauty, with a 
fool to her husband," but though "fool," a 
hard, grasping, mean old hunks. 
 
  Claris'sa, sister of Beverley, plighted to 
George Bellmont.-A. Murphy, All in the 
Wrong, (1761). 
  Clarissa Harlowe. (See HAXLOWE.) 
 
  Clark (The Rev. T.), the pseudonym of 
John Gall, the novelist (1779 1839). 
 
  Clarke (The Rev. C. C.), one of the 
many pseudonyms of Sir Richard Phillips, 
author of The Hundred Wonders of the 
World (1818), Readings in Natural Phil- 
osophy. 
 
 
   Clarsie, the mountain maid who, going 
 out at dawn to "try her fortune," discov- 
 ers the "lHarnt" that walks Chilhowee.- 
 Charles Egbert Craddock (Mary Noailles 
 Murfree), In the Tennessee Mountains (1884). 
 
   Cla'tho, the last wife of Fingal and 
 mother of Fillan, Fingal's youngest son. 
 
   Claude (The English), Richard Wilson 
 (1714-1782). 
 
   Clau'dine (2 syl.), wife of the porter of 
 the hotel Harancour, and old nurse of 
 Julio "the deaf and dumb" count. She 
 recognizes the lad, who had been rescued 
 by De l'Ep~e from the streets of Paris, 
 and brought up by him under the name 
 of Theodore. Ultimately, the guardian 
 Darlemont confesses that he had sent him 
 adrift under the hope of getting rid of 
 him; but being proved to be the count, 
 he is restored to his rank and property.- 
 Th. Holcroft, The Deaf and Dumb (1785). 
 
 Claudio (Lord) of Florence, a friend of 
 Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon, and en- 
 gaged to Hero (daughter of Leonato, gov- 
 ernor of Messina)-Shakespeare, Much 
 Ado about Nothing (1600). 
 
   Clau'dio, brother of Isabella and the 
suitor of Juliet. He tries to dishonor Isa- 
bella, but the Duke Vincentio interferes 
and compels him to marry Juliet, whom 
he had wronged.-Shakespeare, Measure 
for Measure (1603). 
 
  Clan'dius, King of Denmark, who 
poisoned his brother, married the widow, 
and usurped the throne. Claudius in- 
duced Laert~s to challenge Hamlet to play 
with foils, but persuaded him to poison 
his weapon. In the combat the foils got 
changed, and Hamlet wounded Laert~s 
with the poisoned weapon. In order still 
 
 
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