Chapter Homilies to Honour of H by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Honora, daughter of general Archas, “the loyal subject” of the great-duke of Moscovia, and sister of Viola.—Beaumont (?) and Fletcher: The Loyal Subject (1618). (Beaumont died 1616).

Honoria, a fair but haughty dame, greatly loved by Theodore of Ravenna; but the lady “hated him alone,” and “the more he loved the more she disdained.” One day, she saw the ghost of Guido Cavalcanti hunting with two mastiffs a damsel who despised his love and who was doomed to suffer a year for every month she had tormented him. Her torture was to be hunted by dogs, torn to pieces, disemboweled, and restored to life again every Friday. This vision so acted on the mind of Honoria, that she no longer resisted the love of Theodore, but, “with the full consent of all, she changed her state,”—Dryden: Theodore and Honoria (a poem).

This tale is from Boccaccio’s Decameron (day v. 8).

Honour (Mrs.), the waiting gentlewoman of Sophia Western.—Fielding: Tom Jones (1749).

This is worse than Sophy Western and Mrs. Honour about Tom Jones’s broken arm.—Professor Wilson.