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he calls _perjury_; ”calumny” he calls _burglary_; ”condemnation”

_redemption_; ”respect,” _suspect_. When Conrade says, ”Away! you are an a.s.s;” Dogberry tells the town clerk to write him down ”an a.s.s.”

”Masters,” he says to the officials, ”remember I am an a.s.s.” ”Oh, that I had been writ down an a.s.s!” (act. iv. sc. 2).--Shakespeare, _Much Ado About Nothing_ (1600.)

DOGGET, wardour at the castle of Garde Doloureuse.--Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.).

DOGGET'S COAT AND BADGE, the great prize in the Thames rowing-match, given on the 1st of August every year. So called from Thomas Dogget, an actor of Drury Lane, who signalized the accession of George I.

to the throne by giving annually a waterman's coat and badge to the winner of the race. The Fishmongers' company add a guinea to the prize.

DOILEY _(Abraham)_, a citizen and retired slop-seller. He was a charity boy, wholly without education, but made 80,000 in trade, and is determined to have ”a larned skollard for his son-in-law.”

He speaks of _jomtry_ [geometry], _joklate, jogrify, Al Mater, pinny-forty_, and _antikary doctors_; talks of _Scratchi_ [Gracchi], _Horsi_ [Horatii], a _study of horses_, and so on. Being resolved to judge between the rival scholars.h.i.+p of an Oxford pedant and a captain in the army, he gets both to speak Greek before him. Gradus, the scholar, quotes two lines of Greek, in which the _panta_ occurs four times. ”Pantry!” cries the old slop-seller; ”you can't impose upon me.

I know _pantry_ is not Greek.” The captain tries English fustian, and when Gradus maintained that the words are English, ”Out upon you for a jackanapes,” cries the old man; ”as if I didn't know my own mother tongue!” and gives his verdict in favor of the captain.

_Elizabeth Doiley_, daughter of the old slop-seller, in love with Captain Granger. She and her cousin Charlotte induce the Oxford scholar to dress like a _beau_ to please the ladies. By so doing he disgusts the old man, who exclaims, ”Oh, that I should ever had been such a dolt as to take thee for a man of larnen'!” So the captain wins the race at a canter.--Mrs. Cowley, _Who's the Dupe_?

DOLL COMMON, a young woman in league with Subtle the alchemist and Face his alley.--B. Jonson, _The Alchemist_ (1610).

Mrs. Pritchard [1711-1768] could pa.s.s from ”Lady Macbeth” to ”Doll Common.”--Leigh Hunt.

DOLL TEARSHEET, a ”bona-roba.” This virago is cast into prison with Dame Quickly (hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap), for the death of a man that they and Pistol had beaten.--Shakespeare, 2 _Henry IV_.

(1598).

DOLALLOLLA _(Queen)_, wife of King Arthur, very fond of stiff punch, but scorning ”vulgar sips of brandy, gin, and rum.” She is the enemy of Tom Thumb, and opposes his marriage with her daughter Huncamunca; but when Noodle announces that the red cow has devoured the pigmy giant-queller, she kills the messenger for his ill-tidings, and is herself killed by Frizaletta. Queen Dollalolla is jealous of the giantess Glundalca, at whom his majesty casts ”sheep's eyes.”--_Tom Thumb_, by Fielding the novelist (1730), altered by O'Hara, author of _Midas_ (1778).

DOLLA MURREY, a character in Crabbe's _Borough_, who died playing cards.

”A vole! a vole!” she cried; ”'tis fairly won.”

This said, she gently with a single sigh Died.

Crabbe, _Borough_ (1810).

DOLLY. The most bewitching of the Bohemian household described in Frances Hodgson Burnett's _Vagabondia_. Piquante, brave, sonsie, and loving, she bears and smiles through the hards.h.i.+ps and vicissitudes of her lot until she loses (as she thinks) the love and trust of ”Griff,”

to whom she had been betrothed for years. Only his return and penitence save her from slipping out of a world that has few n.o.bler women.

DOLLY OF THE CHOP-HOUSE (Queen's Head Pa.s.sage, Paternoster Row and Newgate Street, London.) Her celebrity arose from the excellency of her provisions, attendance, accommodation, and service. The name is that of the old cook of the establishment.

The broth reviving, and the bread was fair, The small beer grateful and as pepper strong, The beaf-steaks tender, and the pot-herbs young.

DOLLY TRULL. Captain Macheath says she was ”so taken up with stealing hearts, she left herself no time to steal anything else.”--Gay, _The Beggar's Opera_, ii. I. (1727).

DOLLY VARDEN, daughter of Gabriel Varden, locksmith. She was loved to distraction by Joe Willet, Hugh of the Maypole inn, and Simon Tappert.i.t. Dolly dressed in the Watteau style, and was lively, pretty, and bewitching.--C. d.i.c.kens, _Barnaby Rudge_ (1841).

DOL'ON, ”a man of subtle wit and wicked mind,” father of Guizor (groom of Pollente the Saracen, lord of ”Parlous Bridge”). Sir Ar'tegal, with scant ceremony, knocks the life out of Guizor, for demanding of him ”pa.s.sage-penny” for crossing the bridge. Soon afterwards, Brit'omart and Talus rest in Dolon's castle for the night, and Dolon, mistaking Britomart for Sir Artegal, sets upon her in the middle of the night, but is overmastered. He now runs with his two surviving sons to the bridge, to prevent the pa.s.sage of Britomart and Talus; but Britomart runs one of them through with her spear, and knocks the other into the river.--Spenser _Faery Queen_ v. 6 (1596).

DOL'ON AND ULYSSES. Dolon undertook to enter the Greek camp and bring word back to Hector an exact account of everything. Accordingly he put on a wolf's skin and prowled about the camp on all fours. Ulysses saw through the disguise, and said to Diomed, ”Yonder man is from the host ... we'll let him pa.s.s a few paces, and then pounce on him unexpectedly.” They soon caught the fellow, and having ”pumped” out of him all about the Trojan plans, and the arrival of Rhesus, Diomed smote him with his falchion on the mid-neck and slew him. This is the subject of bk. x. of the _Iliad_ and therefore this book is called ”Dolonia” (”the deeds of Dolon” or ”Dolophon'ia”, ”Dolon's murder”).

Full of cunning, like Ulysses' whistle When he allured poor Dolon.

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