Part 110 (1/2)

Remond, young Remond, that full well could sing, And tune his pipe at Pan's birth carolling; Who, for his nimble leaping, sweetest layes, A laurell garland wore on holidayes; In framing of whose hand Dame Nature swore, There never was his like, nor should be more.

_Pastoral_, i.

=Rem'ores=, birds which r.e.t.a.r.d the execution of a project.

”Remores” aves in auspicio dic.u.n.tur quae acturum aliquid remorari compellunt.--Festus, _De VerborumSignificatione_.[TN-121]

=Remus.= (See ROMULUS AND REMUS.)

_Remus_ (_Uncle_). Hero of many of Joel Chandler Harris's tales of negro-life. His fables of ”Brer Rabbit,” ”Brer Bear,” and the like are curious relics of African folk-lore (1886).

=Re'naud=, one of the paladins of Charlemagne, always described with the properties of a borderer, valiant, alert, ingenious, rapacious, and unscrupulous. Better known in the Italian form _Rinaldo_ (_q.v._).

=Renault=, a Frenchman, and one of the chief conspirators in which Pierre was concerned. When Jaffier joined the conspiracy, he gave his wife, Belvide'ra, as surety of his fidelity, and a dagger to be used against her if he proved unfaithful. Renault attempted the honor of the lady, and Jaffier took her back in order to protect her from such insults. The old villain died on the wheel, and no one pitied him.--T. Otway, _Venice Preserved_ (1682).

=Rene=, the old king of Provence, father of Queen Margaret of Anjou (wife of Henry VI. of England). A minstrel-monarch, friend to the chase and tilt, poetry, and music. Thiebault says he gave in largesses to knights-errant and minstrels more than he received in revenue (ch.

xxix.).--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

_Rene_ (2 _syl._), the hero and t.i.tle of a romance by Chateaubriand (1801). It was designed for an episode to his _Genie du Christianisme_ (1802). Rene is a man of social inaction, conscious of possessing a superior genius, but his pride produces in him a morbid bitterness of spirit.

_Rene_ [LEBLANC], notary public of Grand Pre, in Arcadia (_Nova Scotia_). Bent with age, but with long yellow hair flowing over his shoulders. He was the father of twenty children, and had a hundred grandchildren. When Acadia was ceded by the French to England, George II. confiscated the goods of the simple colonists, and drove them into exile. Rene went to Pennsylvania, where he died, and was buried.--Longfellow, _Evangeline_ (1849).

=Renton= (_Dr._). A Boston physician, whose best friend, dying, leaves a letter charging Renton, ”_In the name of the Saviour, be true and tender to mankind_.” The doctor believes himself to be haunted by the ghost of this man, intent upon inforcing the admonition, and the needy and the afflicted profit by the hallucination.--William D. O'Connor, _The Ghost_.

=Rentowel= (_Mr. Jabesh_), a covenanting preacher.--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.).

With vehemence of some pulpit-drumming Gowkthrapple, or ”precious”

Mr. Jabesh Rentowel.--Carlyle.

=Renzo and Lucia=, the hero and heroine of an Italian novel by Alessandro Manzoni, ent.i.titled[TN-122] _The Betrothed Lover_ (”I Promessi Sposi”).

This novel contains an account of the Bread Riot and plague of Milan.

Cardinal Borro'meo is also introduced. There is an English translation (1827).

=Republican Queen=, (_The_), Sophie Charlotte, wife of Frederick I. of Prussia.

=Resequenz=, wily major-domo to the duke of Romagna, audacious, unscrupulous and treacherous.--William Waldorf Astor, _Valentino_ (1886).

=Resolute= (_The_), John Florio, philologist (1545?-1625). Translated Montaigne's Essays and wrote a French and English Dictionary called a _World of Words_. One of the few autographs of Shakespeare is in a copy of Florio's Montaigne in the British Museum.

? Florio is said to have been the prototype of Shakespeare's ”Holofernes,”