Chapter Custance to Czar of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

slowe,
His head dismembered from his mangled corps,
Herself she cast into a vessel fraught
With clotted blood of them that felt her force,
And with these words a just reward she taught—
“Drynke now thy fyll of thy desired draught.”
   —Sackville: A Mirrour for Magistraytes (“The Complaynt,” 1587).

Cytherea, Venus; so called from Cythera (now Cerigo), a mountainous is land of Laconia, noted for the worship of Aphrodite (or Venus). The tale is that Venus and Mars, having formed an illicit affection for each other, were caught in a delicate net made by Vulcan, and exposed to the ridicule of the court of Olympus.

He the fate [may sing]
Of naked Mars with Cytherea chained.
   —Akenside: Hymn to the Naiads.

Cythna. (See Revolt of Islam.)

Cyzenis, the infamous daughter of Diomed, who killed every one that fell into her clutches; and compelled fathers to eat their own children.

Czar (Cæsar), a title first assumed in Russia by Ivan III., who, in 1472, married a princess of the imperial Byzantine line. He also introduced the double-headed black eagle of Byzantium as the national symbol. The official style of the Russian autocrat is Samoderjetz.