BOOTES 
 
 
  Doth not Orion worthily deserve 
  A higher place... 
  Than frail Bobt~s, who was placed above 
  Only because the gods did else foresee 
  He should the murderer of his mother be ? 
                 Lord Brooke, Of Nobility. 
 
  Booth, husband of Amelia. Said to be 
a drawing of the author's own character 
and experiences. He has all the vices of 
Tom Jones, with an additional share of 
meanness.-Fielding, Amelia (1751). 
 
  Borach'io, a follower of don John of 
Aragon. He is a great villain, engaged to 
Margaret, the waiting-woman of Hero.- 
Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothinq 
(1600). 
  Borach'io, a drunkard. (Spanish, bor- 
racho," drunk;" borrachuelo, "a tippler.") 
  "Why, you stink of wine! Dye think my 
niece will ever endure such a borachio? You're 
an absolute Borachio."-W. Congreve, The Way 
of the World (1700).. 
  Borachio (Joseph), landlord of the Eagle 
notel,  in   Salamanca.--Jephson,   Two 
Stringqs to your Bow (1792). 
 
  Bor'ak (Al), the animal brought by 
Gabriel to convey Mahomet to the seventh 
heaven. The word means "lightning." 
Al Borak had the face of a man, but the 
cheeks of a horse; its eyes were like ja- 
cinths, but brilliant as the stars; it had 
eagle's wings, glistened all over with ra- 
diant light, and it spoke with a human 
voice. This was one of the ten animals 
(not of the race of man) received into para- 
dise. 
  Borak was a fine-limbed, high-standing horse, 
strong in frame, and with a coat as glossy as 
marble. His color was saffron, with one hair of 
gold for every three of tawny; his ears were 
restless and pointed like a reed; his eyes large 
and full of fire; his nostrils wide and steaming; 
he had a white star on his forehead, a neck 
gracefully arched, a mane soft and silky, and a 
 
 
thick tail that swept the ground.-Croquemitaine, 
ii. 9. 
  Border Minstrel (The), sir Walter 
Scott (1771-1832). 
      My steps the Border Minstrel led. 
         W. Wordsworth, Yarrow Revisited. 
 
  Bo'reas, the north wind. He lived in a 
cave on mount Hllmus, in Thrace. 
     Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer. 
             G. A. Stephens, The Shipwreck. 
 
  Bor'gia (Lucrezia di), duchess of Fer- 
ra'ra, wife of don Alfonso. Her natural 
son Genna'ro was brought up by a fisher- 
man in Naples, but when he grew to man- 
hood a stranger gave him a paper from his 
mother, announcing to him that he was 
of noble blood, but concealing his name 
and family. He saved the life of Orsi'ni 
in the battle of Rin'ini, and they became 
sworn friends. In Venice he was intro- 
duced to a party of nobles, all of whom 
had some tale to tell against Lucrezia: Or- 
sini told him she had murdered her 
brother; Vitelli, that she had caused his 
uncle to be slain; Liverotto, that she had 
poisoned his uncle Appia'no; Gazella, that 
she had caused one of his relatives to be 
drowned in the Tiber. Indignant at these 
acts of wickedness, Gennaro struck off the 
B from the escutcheon of the duke's palace 
at Ferrara, changing the name Borgia into 
Orgia. Lucrezia prayed the duke to put 
to death the man who had thus insulted 
their noble house, and Gennaro was con- 
demned to death by poison. Lucrezia, to 
save him, gave him an antidote, and let 
him out of prison by a secret door. Soon 
after his liberation the princess Negroni, a 
friend of the Borgias, gave a grand supper, 
to which Gennaro and his companions 
were invited. At the close of the banquet 
they were all arrested by Lucrezia after 
having drunk 'poisoned wine. Gennaro 
 
 
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