Chapter Huniades to Hythloday of H by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Huon, a serf, secretary and tutor of the countess Catherine, with whom he falls in love. He reads with music in his voice, talks enchantingly, writes admirably, translates “dark languages,” is “wise in rare philosophy,” is master of the hautboy, lute, and viol, “proper in trunk and limb and feature;” but the proud countess, though she loves him, revolts from the idea of marrying a serf. At length it comes to the ears of the duke that his daughter loves Huon, and the duke commands him, on pain of death, to marry Catherine, a freed serf. He refuses, till the countess interferes; he then marries, and rushes to the wars. Here he greatly distinguishes himself, and is created a prince, when he learns that the Catherine he has wed is not Catherine the freed serf, but Catherine the countess.—Knowles: Love (1840).

Huon de Bordeaux (Sir), who married Esclairmond, and, when Oberon went to paradise, succeeded him as “king of all Faëry.”

In the second part, Huon visits the terrestrial paradise, and encounters Cain, the first murderer, in performance of his penance.—Huon de Bordeaux.

N. B.—An abstract of this romance is in Dunlop’s History of Fiction. (See also Keightley’s Fairy Mythology.) It is also the subject of Wieland’s Oberon, which has been translated by Sotheby.

Hûr al Oyûn, the black-eyed daughters of paradise, created of pure musk. They are free from all bodily weakness, and are ever young. Every believer will have seventy-two of these girls as his household companions in paradise, and those who desire children will see them grow to maturity in an hour.—Al Korân, Sale’s notes.

Hurgonel (Count), the betrothed of Orna sister of duke Gondibert.—Davenant: Gondibert, iii. 1 (died 1668).

Hurlo-Thrumbo, a burlesque which had an extraordinary run at the Haymarket Theatre.—Samuel Johnson (not Dr. S. Johnson): Hurlo-Thrumbo, or The Supernatural (1730).

Consider, then, before, like Hurlo-Thrumbo,
You aim your club at any creed on earth,
That, by the simple accident of birth,
You might have been high priest to Mumbo-Jumbo.
   —Hood.

Hurry, servant of Oldworth of Oldworth Oaks. He is always out of breath, wholly unable to keep quiet or stand still, and proves the truth of the proverb, “The more haste the worse speed.” He fancies all things go wrong if he is not bustling about, and he is a constant fidget.—Burgoyne: The Maid of the Oaks (1779).

Poor Weston! “Hurry” was one of his last parts, and was taken from real life. I need not tell those who remember this genuine representer of nature, that in “Hurry” he threw the audience into loud fits of mirth without discomposing a muscle of his features [1727–1776].—T. Davies.

Hurtali, a giant who reigned in the time of the Flood.

The Massorets affirm that Hurtali, being too big to get into the ark, sat astride upon it, as children stride a wooden horse.—Rabelais: Pantagruel, ii. 1(1545).

(Minage says that the rabbins assert tha t it was Og, not Hurtali, who thus outrode the Flood. See Le Pelletier, chap. xxv. of his Noah’s Ark.)

Husbandry (Five Hundred Points of Good), by Tusser (1557). (See Southey’s Early British Poets.)

Hushai, in Dryden’s satire of Absalom and Achitophel, is Hyde earl of Rochester. As Hushai was David’s friend and wise counsellor, so was Hyde the friend and wise counsellor of Charles II. As the counsel of