Chapter Adona to Æacus of A by Brewer's Readers Handbook

the doge to throw a similar one into the sea every year on Ascension Day in commemoration of this event. The doge’s brigantine was called Bucentaur.

You may remember, scarce five years are past
Since in your brigantine you sailed to see
The Adriatic wedded to our duke.
   —Otway: Venice Preserved, i. 1 (1682).

Adriel, in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, the earl of Mulgrave, a royalist.

Sharp-judging Adriel, the Muses’ friend;
Himself a muse. In sanhedrim’s debate
True to his prince, but not a slave to state;
Whom David’s love with honours did adorn,
That from his disobedient son were torn.
   —Part i. 838, etc.

(John Sheffield, earl of Mulgrave (1649–1721), wrote an Essay on Poetry.)

Adventures of Philip, “on his way through the world, showing who robbed him, who helped him, and who passed him by.” A novel by Thackeray (1860). Probably suggested by Lesage’s Gil Blas.

Æacus, king of Œnopia, a man of such integrity and piety, that he was made at death one of the three judges of hell. The other two were Minos and Rhadamanthus.