Chapter Cock of Westminster to Cole of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

The next would be 1902. There are some remarkable coincidences in the history of Napoleon. (See Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, p. 877, col. 2.)

Colada, the sword taken by th e Cid from Ramon Berenger, count of Barcelona. This sword had two hilts of solid gold.

Colax, Flattery personified in The Purple Island (1633), by Phineas Fletcher. Colax “all his words with sugar spices…lets his tongue to sin, and takes rent of shame…His art [was] to hide and not to heal a sore.” Fully described in canto viii. (Greek, kôlax, “a flatterer or fawner.”)

Colbrand or Colebrond , the Danish giant, slain in the presence of king Athelstan, by sir Guy of Warwick, just returned from a pilgrimage, still “in homely russet clad,” and in his hand “a hermit’s staff.” The combat is described at length by Drayton, in his Polyolbion, xii.

One could scarcely bear his axe… Whose squares were laid with plates, and riveted with steel And armëd down along with pikes, whose hardened points …had power to tear the joints Of cuirass or of mail.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xii. (1613).

Colchos, part of Asiatic Scythia, now called Mingrelia. The region to which the Argonauts directed their course.

Cold Harbour House, the original Heralds’ College, founded by Richard II., in Poultney Lane. Henry VII. turned the heralds out, and gave the house to bishop Tunstal.

Coldstream (Sir Charles), the chief character in Charles Mathew’s play called Used Up. He is wholly ennuyé, sees nothing to admire in anything; but is a living personification of mental inanity and physical imbecility (1845).

Cole , a legendary British king, described as “a merry old soul,” fond of his pipe, fond of his glass, and fond of his “fiddlers three.” There were two kings so called—Cole (or Coïl I.) was the predecessor of Porrex; but Coïl II. was succeeded by Lucius, “the first British king who embraced the Christian religion.” Which of these two mythical kings the song refers to is not evident.

Cole (Mrs.). This character is designed for Mother Douglas, who kept a “gentlemen’s magazine of frail beauties” in a superbly furnished house at the north-east corner of Covent Garden. She died 1761.—Foote: The Minor (1760).