Part 111 (2/2)

=Reynaldo=, a servant to Polonius.--Shakespeare, _Hamlet_ (1596).

=Reynard the Fox=, the hero of the beast-epic so called. This prose poem is a satire on the state of Germany in the Middle Ages. Reynard represents the Church; Isengrin, the wolf (his uncle), typifies the baronial element; and Nodel, the lion, stands for the regal power. The plot turns on the struggle for supremacy between Reynard and Isengrin.

Reynard uses all his endeavors to victimize every one, especially his uncle, Isengrin, and generally succeeds.--_Reinecke Fuchs_ (thierepos,[TN-125] 1498).

=Reynardine= (3 _syl._), eldest son of Reynard the Fox. He a.s.sumed the names of Dr. Pedanto and Crabron.--_Reynard the Fox_ (1498).

=Reynold of Montalbon=, one of Charlemagne's paladins.

=Reynolds= (_Sir Joshua_), is thus described by Goldsmith:

Here Reynolds is laid; and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind.

His pencil was striking, resistless and grand; His manners were gentle, complying and bland ...

To c.o.xcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing; When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He s.h.i.+fted his trumpet, and only took snuff.

_Retaliation_ (1774).

N.B.--Sir Joshua Reynolds was hard of hearing, and used an ear-trumpet.

=Rez'io= (_Dr._) or ”Pedro Rezio of Ague'ro,” the doctor of Barata'ria, who forbade Sancho Panza to taste any of the meats set before him. Roast partridge was ”forbidden by Hippoc'rates.” Podri'da was ”the most pernicious food in the world.” Rabbits were ”a sharp-haired diet.” Veal was ”prejudicial to health.” But, he said, the governor might eat ”a few wafers, and a thin slice or two of quince.”--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, II. iii. 10 (1615).

=Rhadaman'thus=, son of Jupiter and Euro'pa. He reigned in the Cyclades with such partiality, that at death he was made one of the judges of the infernal regions.

And if departed souls must rise again ...

And bide the judgment of reward or pain ...

Then Rhadamanthus and stern Minos were True types of justice while they lived here.

Lord Brooke, _Monarchie_, i. (1554-1628).

=Rhampsini'tos=, king of Egypt, usually called Ram'eses III., the richest of the Egyptian monarchs, who ama.s.sed 72 millions sterling, which he secured in a treasury of stone. By an artifice of the builder, he was robbed every night.--_Herodotus_, ii. 121.

A parallel tale is told of Hyrieus [_Hy'.ri.uce_] of Hyria. His two architects, Trophonios and Agamedes (brothers), built his treasure-vaults, but left one stone removable at pleasure. After great loss of treasure, Hyrieus spread a net, in which Agame'des was caught.

To prevent recognition, Trophonios cut off his brother's head.--Pausanias, _Itinerary of Greece_, ix. 37, 3.

A similar tale is told of the treasure-vaults of Augeas, king of Elis.

=Rha'sis= or Mohammed Aboubekr ibn Zakaria el Razi, a noted Arabian physician. He wrote a treatise on small-pox and measles, with some 200 other treatises (850-923).

Well, error has no end; And Rhasis is a sage.

R. Browning, _Paracelsus_, iii.

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