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Hookem (Mr.), partner of lawyer Clippurse at Waverley Honour.—Sir W. Scott: Waverley (time, George II.).

Hop (Robin), the hop plant.

Get into thy hop-yard, for now it is time
To teach Robin Hop on his pole how to climb.
   —Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry xli. 17 (1557)

Hope. The name of the first woman, according to Grecian mythology, was Pandôra, made by Hephæstos (Vulcan) out of earth. She was called Pandôra (“all-gifted”) because all the deities contributed something to her charms. She married Epimetheus , in whose house was a box which no mortal might open. Curiosity induced Pandôra to peep into it, when out flew all the ills of humanity, and she had but just time to close the lid before the escape of Hope.

When man and nature mourned their first decay …
All, all forsook the friendless, guilty mind,
But Hope—the charmer lingered still behind.
   —Campbell: Pleasures of Hope, i. (1799).

Hope (The Bard of), Thomas Campbell, who wrote The Pleasures of Hope, in two parts (1777–1844).

Hope (The Cape of Good), originally called “The Cape of Storms.”

Similarly, the Euxine (i.e. “hospitable”) Sea was originally called by the Greeks the Axine (i.e. “the inhospitable”) Sea.

(For the “Spirit of the Cape,” see Spirit.)

Hope Diamond (The), a blue brilliant, weighing 44¼ carats.

It is supposed that this diamond is the same as the blue diamond bought by Louis XIV., in 1668, of Tavernier. It weighed in the rough 112¼ carats, and after being cut 67½ carats. In 1792 it was lost. In 1830, Mr. Daniel Eliason came into possession of a blue diamond without any antecedent history; this was bought by Mr. Henry Thomas Hope, and is called “The Hope Diamond.”

Hope of Troy (The), Hector.

[He] stood against them, as the Hope of Troy
Against the Greeks
   —Shakespeare: 3 Henry VI. act ii. sc. 1 (1592).

Hope the Motive Power of All.

The ambitious prince doth hope to conquer all;
The dukes, earls, lords, and knights hope to be kings;
The prelates hope to push for popish pall;
The lawyers hope to purchase wondrous things;
The merchants hope for no less reckonings;
The peasant hopes to get a ferme [farm] at least;
All men are guests where Hope doth hold the feast.
   —Gascoigne: The Fruites of Warre, 88 (died 1577).

Hopeful, a companion of Christian after the death of Faithful at Vanity Fair.—Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress, i. (1678).

Hopkins (Matthew), of Manningtree, in Essex, the witch-finder. In one year he caused sixty persons to be hanged as reputed witches.

Between three and four thousand persons suffered death for witchcraft between 1643 and 1661.—Dr. Z. Grey