. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. III., who compelled her to diinkpoison which she had prepared for him-self. P. Corneille has made this the sub-ject of his tragedy called Rodogune (1646). *** This is not the Cleopatra of Shake-speares and Drydens tragedies. Cleop)atra. In his Graffiti d^Italia, Will-iam Wetmore Story gives a passionatesoliloquy of the Egyptian Queen, begin-ning :— Here, Charmian, take my bracelets;They bar with a purple stainMy arms. (1868). Clerenioiit (2 syl.), a merry gentle-man, the friend of Dinant.—Beaumont Claudio and Isabella Holman Hunt, Artist


. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. III., who compelled her to diinkpoison which she had prepared for him-self. P. Corneille has made this the sub-ject of his tragedy called Rodogune (1646). *** This is not the Cleopatra of Shake-speares and Drydens tragedies. Cleop)atra. In his Graffiti d^Italia, Will-iam Wetmore Story gives a passionatesoliloquy of the Egyptian Queen, begin-ning :— Here, Charmian, take my bracelets;They bar with a purple stainMy arms. (1868). Clerenioiit (2 syl.), a merry gentle-man, the friend of Dinant.—Beaumont Claudio and Isabella Holman Hunt, Artist * IV. H. Simmons, Engraver Isabella. IVHAT says my brother? Claudio. Death is a fearful thing. shamed life a hateful. , but to die, and go we know not where ;To lie in cold obstru£lion and to rot;This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod; . .The weariest and most loathed worldly age, ache, penury, and imprisonmentCan lay on nature, is a paradiseTo what we fear of death. Shake§peares Measure for CLAUDIO AND ISABELLA. CLEEEMONT 241 CLIFFORD and Fletcher, Tlie Little French Lawyer(1547). Clerimond, uiece of the GreenKnight, sister of Ferragus the giant,and bride of Valentine the hvaYe.^Valen-tlne and Orson. Clerks {St. Nicholases), thieves, alsocalled Bt. jSTieholass Clergymen, inallusion to the. tradition of St. Nicholasand the thieves. Probably a play on thewords Nlch-olas and Old Nick may be de-signed.—See Shakespeaie, 1 Henry ii. sc. 1 (1597). Clessamnior, son of Thaddu andbrother of Morna (Fingals mother). Hemarried Moina, daughter of Reuthamu(the principal man of Balclutha, on theClyde). It so happened, that Moina wasbeloved by a Briton named Reuda, whocame with an army to carry her was slain by Clessammor; butClessammor, being closely pressed by theBritons, fled, and never again saw hisbride. In due time a son was born, calledCarthon; but the mother died. WhileCarthon was stiU an infant, Fingalsfath


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