Chapter EDWARD to Egypt of E by Brewer's Readers Handbook

(This is one of the many stories similar to that of William Tell, q.v.)

Egilona, the wife of Roderick last of the Gothic kings of Spain, She was very beautiful, but cold-hearted, vain, and fond of pomp. After the fall of Roderick Egilona married Abdal-Aziz, the Moorish governor of Spain; and when Abdal-Aziz was killed by the Moorish rebels, Egilona fell also.

The popular rage
Fell on them both; and they to whom her name
Had been a mark for mockery and reproach,
Shuddered with human horror at her fate.
   —Southey: Roderick, etc., xxii. (1814).

Egla, a female Moor, servant to Amaranta (wife of Bartolus, the covetous lawyer).—Fletcher: The Spanish Curate (1622). Beaumont died 1616.

Eglamour (Sir) or sir Eglamore of Artoys, a knight of Arthurian romance. Sir Eglamour and sir Pleindamour have no French original, although the names themselves are French.

Eglamour, the person who aids Silvia, daughter of the duke of Milan, in her escape.—Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594).

Eglantine , daughter of king Pepin, and bride of her cousin Valentine (brother of Orson). She soon died.—Valentine and Orson (fifteenth century).

Eglantine (Madame), the prioress; good-natured, wholly ignorant of the world, vain of her delicacy of manner at table, and fond of lap-dogs. Her dainty oath was “By Seint Eloy!” She “entuned the service swetely in her nose,” and spoke French “after the scole of Stratford-atte-Bowe.”—Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (1388).

Egypt. The head-gear of the king of Upper Egypt was a high conical white cap, terminating in a knob at the top. That of the king of Lower Egypt was red. If a king ruled over both countries, he wore both caps, but that of Lower Egypt was placed outside. This composite head-dress was called the pschent.

Egypt, in Dryden’s satire of Absalom and Achitophel, means France.

Proud Egypt would dissembling friendship bring,
Foment the war, but not support the king.
   —Part i. lines 285, 286 (1681).