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her home and place her under a duenna for three months, and then either return her to them spotless, or to make her his wife. At the expiration of the time, he went to settle the marriage contract; and, to make all things sure, locked up the house, giving the keys to Ursula; but to the outer door he attached a huge padlock, and put the key in his pocket. Leander, being in love with Leonora, laughed at locksmiths and duennas, and Diego found them about to elope. Being a wise man, he not only consented to their union, but gave Leonora a handsome marriage portion.—Bickerstaff: The Padlock (1768).

Diet of Performers.

Braham sang on bottled porter

Catley (Miss) took linseed tea and madeira.

Cooke (G. F.) drank everything.

Henderson, gum arabic and sherry.

Incledon sang on madeira.

Jordan (Mrs.) drank calves’-foot jelly and sherry.

Kean (C.) took beef-tea for breakfast, and preferred a rump-steak for dinner.

Kean (Edm.), Emery, and Reeve drank cold brandy-and-water.

Kemble (John) took opium.

Lewis, mulled wine and oysters.

Macready used to eat the lean of mutton-chops when he acted, and subsequently lived almost wholly on a vegetable diet.

Oxberry drank tea.

Russell (Henry) took a boiled egg.

Smith (W.) drank coffee.

Wood (Mrs.) sang on draught porter.

Wrench and Harley took no refreshment during a performance.—W. C. Russell: Representative Actors, 272.

Gladstone, an egg beaten up in sherry.

Dietrich . So Theodoric the Great is called by the German minnesingers. In the terrible broil stirred up by queen Kriembild in the banquet-hall of Etzel, Dietrich interfered, and succeeded in capturing Hagan and the Burgundian king Gunther. These he handed over to the queen, who cut off both their heads with her own hands.—The Nibelungen Lied (thirteenth century).

Dietrich (John), a labourer’s son of Pomerania. He spent twelve years under ground, where he met Elizabeth Krabbin, daughter of the minister of his own village, Rambin. One day, walking together, they heard a cock crow, and an irresistible desire came over both of them to visit the upper earth. John so frightened the elves by a toad, that they yielded to his wish, and gave him hoards of wealth, with part of which he bought half the island of Rügen. He married Elizabeth, and became the founder of a very powerful family.—Keightley: Fairy Mythology. (See Tannhäuser.)