DAWSON 
 
 
countrymen. Davus was the stock name 
of a servant or slave in Latin comedies. 
The proverb is used by Terence, Andrea, 
1, 2, 23. 
 
   Davy, the varlet of Justice Shallow, 
 who so identifies himself with his master 
 that he considers himself half host half 
 varlet. Thus when he seats Bardolph and 
 Page at table, he tells them they must 
 take "his" good will for their assurance 
 of welcome.-Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV. 
 (1598). 
 
 Daw (Sir David), a rich, dunder-headed 
 baronet of Monmouthshire, without wit, 
 words, or worth, but believing himself 
 somebody, and fancying himself a sharp 
 fellow, because his servants laugh at his 
 good sayings, and his mother calls him a 
 wag. Sir David pays his suit to Miss 
 [Emily] Tempest ; but as the affections 
 of the young lady are fixed on Henry 
 Woodville, the baron goes to the wall.- 
 Cumberland, The Wheel of Fortune (1779). 
 
 Daw (Marjorie) Edward Delaney, writ- 
 ing to another young fellow, John Flem- 
 ming, confined in town in August by a 
 broken leg, interests him in a charming 
 girl, Marjorie Daw by name, whom he has 
 met in his (Delaney's) summering-place. 
 His description of her ways, sayings and 
 looks so works upon the imagination of 
 the invalid that he falls madly in love with 
 her-without sight. As soon as he can 
 travel he rushes madly down to "The 
 Pines" where his friend is staying, and 
 finds instead of Delaney a letter : 
 ... "I tried to make a little romance to inter- 
 est you, something soothing and idyllic, and by 
Jove! I've done it only too well . . . I fly from 
the wrath to come-when you arrive! For, 0, 
dear Jack, there isn't any colonial mansion on 
the other side of the road, there isn't any piazza, 
 
 
there isn't any hammock,-there isn't any 
Marjorie Daw !" 
   Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Marjorie Daw (1873). 
 
   Dawfyd, "the one-eyed" freebooter 
 chief.-Sir W. Scott, The Betrothed (time, 
 Henry II.). 
 
   Dawkins (Jack), known by the sobri- 
 quet of the "Artful Dodger." He is one 
 of Fagin's tools. Jack Dawkins is a young 
 scamp of unmitigated villainy, and full of 
 artifices, but of a cheery, buoyant temper. 
 -C. Dickens, Oliver Twist, viii. (1837). 
 
 Dawson     (Bully), a London   sharper, 
 bully, and debauchee of the seventeenth 
 century.-See Spectator, No. 2. 
 Bully Dawson kicked by half the town, and 
 half the town kicked by Bully Dawson.-Charles 
 Lamb. 
 
 Dawson (Jemmy). Captain James Daw- 
 son was one of the eight officers belonging 
 to the Manchester volunteers in the service 
 of Charles Edward, the young pretender. 
 He was a very amiable young man, 
 engaged to a young lady of family and 
 fortune, who went in her carriage to wit- 
 ness his execution for treason. When the 
 body was drawn, i.e. embowelled, and the 
 heart thrown into the fire, slie exclaimed, 
 "James Dawson !" and expired. Shen- 
 stone has made this the subject of a tragic 
 ballad. 
    Young Dawson was a gallant youth, 
      A brighter never trod the plain; 
    And well he loved one charming maid, 
      And dearly was he loved again. 
                Shenstone, Jemmy Dawson. 
 
  Dawson (Phoebe), "the pride of Lammas 
Fair," courted by all the smartest young 
men of the village, but caught "by the 
sparkling eyes" and ardent words of a 
tailor. Phoebe had by him a child before 
marriage, and after marriage he turned 
 
 
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