Chapter Hood to Horace of H by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Hopton When in doubt, kill Hopton. Sir Ralph Hopton was a Royalist general. During the Civil Wars we read that Hopton was killed over and over again; thus, in Diurnal Occurrences, Dec. 5th, 1642, we read, "It was likewise this day reported that Sir Ralph Hopton is either dead or dangerously sicke." Five months later we read in Special Passages, May 6th, 1643, of Hopton's death after a fight on Roborough Down, in Devonshire. And again, May 15th, 1643, we read of his death in A True Relation of the Proceedings of the Cornish Forces.

Horace The Roman lyric poet.
   Horaces of England. George, Duke of Buckingham, preposterously declared Cowley to be the Pindar, Horace, and Virgil of England (1618-1667). Ben Jonson is invariably called Horace by Dekker.
   Horaces of France. Jean Macrinus or Salmon (1490-1557); Pierre Jean de Beranger, the French Burns (1780-1857).
   Horaces of Spain. The brothers Argensola, whose Christian names were Lupercio and Bartolme.