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Sussex: Then let us lead home logs.

Warwickshire: I’ll bind the sturdy bear.

Wiltshire: Get home and pay for all.

Worcestershire: And I will squirt the pear.

Yorkshire: I’se Yorkshire and Stingo.

Country (Father of his). Cicero was so called by the Roman senate (B.C. 106–43). Julius Cæsar was so called after quelling the insurrection in Spain (B.C. 100–43). Augustus Cæsar was called Pater atque Princeps (B.C. 63, 31–14 ). Cosmo de Medici (1389–1464). G. Washington, defender and paternal counsellor of the American States (1732–1799). Andrea Dorêa is so called on the base of his statue in Genoa (1468–1560). Andronicus Palæologus II. assumed the title (1260–1332). (See I Chron. iv. 14.)

Country Girl (The), a comedy by Garrick, altered from Wycherly. The “country girl” is Peggy Thrift, the orphan daughter of sir Thomas Thrift, and ward of Moody, who brings her up in the country in perfect seclusion. When Moody is 50 and Peggy is 19, he wants to marry her, but she outwits him and marries Belville, a young man of suitable age and position.

Country Parson (A), the name under which Dr. Boyd (minister of St. Andrew’s, Scotland) wrote several books.

Country Pastor (A). So archbishop Whately signed his Lectures on Scripture Revelations (1825).

Country Wife (The), a comedy by William Wycherly (1675).

Pope was proud to receive notice from the author of The Country Wife.—R. Chambers: English Literature, i. 393.

Coupee, the dancing-master, who says “if it were not for dancing-masters, men might as well walk on their heads as heels.” He courts Lucy by promising to teach her dancing.—Fielding: The Virgin Unmasked.

Courland Weather, wintry weather with pitiless snow-storms. So called from the Russian province of that name.

Course of Time (The), an epic poem in blank verse (six books) by Pollok (1827).

Course of True Love never did run Smooth (The), a tale by C. Reade (1857).

(T. B. Aldrich wrote a story in verse with the same title in 1858. It recounts the ups and downs of two lovers, whom the caliph tried to keep apart.)

Court Holy Water, flummery; the meaningless compliments of politesse, called in French Eau benite de cour.

To flatter, to claw, to give one court holie-water.—Florio: Italian Dictionary, art. “Mantellizare.”

Courtain, one of the swords of Ogier the Dane, made by Munifican. His other sword was Sauvagine.

But Ogier gazed upon it [the sea] doubtfully
One moment, and then, sheathing Courtain, said,
“What tales are these?”
   —Morris: The Earthly Paradise (“August”).

Courtall, a fop and consummate libertine, for ever boasting of his love-conquests over ladies of the haut monde. He tries to corrupt lady Frances Touchwood, but is foiled by Saville.—Mrs. Cowley: The Belle’s Stratagem (1780).