267              QUIXOTE 
 
 
   "I will fall at the feet of the Holy Father, and 
 beseech him not to make a bishop out of a poor, 
 simple old man who cannot bear so great a bur- 
 den; but to let me come back and die among 
 my dear people! "--Octave Thanet, Quilters it 
 the Sun (1877). 
   Quinap'alus, the Mrs. Harris of "au- 
thorities in citations." If any one quotes 
from an hypothetical author, he gives 
Quinapalus as his authority. 
  What says Quinapalus: "Better a witty fool 
than a foolish wit."-Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, 
act. i. se. 5 (1614). 
 
  Quinbus Flestrin (the "man-mountain"). 
So the Lilliputians called Gulliver (ch. ii.). 
-Swift, Gulliver's Travels (" Voyage to 
Lilliput," 1726). 
 
  Quince (Peter), a carpenter, who under- 
takes the management of the play called 
"Pyramus and ThisbA," in Midsummer 
Night's Dream. He speaks of "laughable 
tragedy," "lamentable comedy," "tragical 
mirth," and so on.-Shakespeare, Midsum- 
mer Night's Dream (1592). 
 
  Quino'nes (Suero de), in the reign of 
Juan II. He, with nine other cavaliers, 
held the bridge of Orbigo against all 
comers for thirty-six days, and in that 
time they overthrew seventy-eight knights 
of Spain and France. 
 
  Quintano'na, the duenna of Queen 
Guinever or Ginebra.-Cervantes, Don 
Quixote, II. ii. 6 (1615). 
 
  Quintessence (Queen), sovereign of 
Ent6l6chie, the country of speculative 
science visited by Pantag'ruel and his 
companions in their search for "the oracle 
of the Holy Bottle."-Rabelais, Pantagruel, 
v. 19 (1545). 
 
  Quin'tiquinies'tra (Queen), a much- 
 
 
dreaded, fighting giantess. It was one of 
the romances of Don Quixote's library 
condemned by the priest and barber of 
the village to be burnt.-Cervantes, Don 
Quixote, I. (1605). 
 
   Quintus Fixlein [Fix.line], the title and 
 chief character of a romance by Jean Paul 
 Friedrich Richter (1796). 
 Francia, like Quintus Fixlein, had perennial 
 fireproof joys, namely, employments.-Carlyle. 
 
   Quiri'nus, Mars. 
        Now, by our sire Quirinus, 
          It was a goodly sight 
        To see the thirty standards 
          Swept down the town of flight. 
Lord Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome (" Battle 
  of the Lake Regillus," xxxvi., 1842). 
 
  Quitam (Mr.), the lawyer at the Black 
Bear inn at Darlington.-Sir W. Scott, 
Rob Boy (time, George I.). 
  *** The first two words in an action on 
a penal statute are Qui tam. Thus, Qui 
tam pro domina regina, quam pro seipso, 
sequitur. 
 
  Quixa'da (Gutierre), lord of Villagarcia. 
Don Quixote calls himself a descendant 
of this brave knight.-Cervantes, Don 
Quixote, I. (1605). 
 
  Quixote (Don), a gaunt country gentle- 
man of La Mancha, about 50 years of age, 
gentle, and dignified, learned and high- 
minded; with   strong imagination   per- 
verted by romance, and crazed with ideas 
of chivalry. He is the hero of a Spanish 
romance by Cervantes. Don Quixote feels 
himself called on to become a knight- 
errant to defend the oppressed, and suc- 
cor the injured. He engages for his squire 
Sancho Panza, a middle-aged, ignorant 
rustic, selfish, but full of good sense, 
a gourmand, attached    to his  master, 
shrewd and credulous. The knight goes 
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QUINNAILON