Chapter Croquemitaine to Crown of the East of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

(The crouth was a long box-shaped instrument, with six or more strings, supported by a bridge. It was played with a bow. The last noted performer on this instrument was John Morgan, a Welshman, who died 1720.)

Crowe (Captain), the attendant of sir Launcelot Greaves , in his peregrinations to reform society. Sir Launcelot is a modern don Quixote, and captain Crowe is his Sancho Panza.

Captain Crowe had commanded a merchant-ship in the Mediterranean trade for many years, and saved some money by dint of frugality and traffic. He was an excellent seaman, brave, active, friendly in his way, and scrupulously honest, but as little acquainted with the world as a sucking child; whimsical, impatient, and so impetuous that he could not help breaking in upon the conversation, whatever it might be, with repeated interruptions.…When he himself attempted to speak, he never finished his period.—Smollett: The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (1760).

Crowfield (Christopher), a pseudonym of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1814–1896).

Crown. Godfrey, when made the over-lord of Jerusalem, or “Baron of the Holy Sepulchre,” refused to wear a crown of gold where his Saviour had only worn a crown of thorns.

Canute, after the rebuke he gave to his flatterers, refused to wear thenceforth any symbol of royalty at all.

Canute (truth worthy to be known)
From that time forth did for his brows disown
The ostentatious symbol of a crown,
Esteeming earthly royalty Presumptuous and vain.

Crown of the East, Antioch, also called “Antioch the Beautiful.”