Chapter Think to Thomas and Fair Ellinor of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

away, Cupid shot him in the heel. Thomalin did not much heed the wound at first, but soon it festered inwardly and rankled daily more and more.—Spenser: Shepheardes Calendar, iii. (1579).

N. B.—Thomalin is again introduced in ecl. vii., when he inveighs against t he catholic priests in general, and the shepherd Palinodein particular. This eclogue could not have been written before 1578, as it refers to the sequestration of Grindal archbishop of Canterbury in that year.

Thomas (Monsieur), the fellow-traveller of Valentine. Valentine’s niece Mary is in love with him.—Fletcher: Mons. Thomas (1619).

Thomas (Sir), a dogmatical, prating, self-sufficient squire, whose judgments are but “justices’ justice.”—Crabbe: Borough, x. (1810).

Thomas à Kempis, the pseudonym of Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363–1429). Some say, of Thomas Hämmerlein of Kempen, an Augustan (1380–1471).

Thomas and Fair Ellinor (Lord), a ballad (author and date unknown). Lord Thomas greatly loved the fair Ellinor, but married a wealthy “brown maid,” and Ellinor went to the wedding. Lord Thomas said to her that he “loved her little finger better than he loved his bride’s whole body;” whereupon the bride stabbed Ellinor with a penknife to the heart; lord Thomas then cut off the head of his bride, and fell upon his own sword. And

There never three lovers together did mete
That sooner again did parte.
   —Percy: Reliques, series iii. bk. 1, No. 15.

“Lord Thomas and lady Annet” and “Margaret and sweet William” are very similar ballads.