Chapter Huniades to Hythloday of H by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.

L’hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu.—Rochefoucauld.

Hypocrite (The), Dr. Cantwell in the English comedy by Isaac Bickerstaff, and Tartuffe in the French comedy by Molière. He pretends to great sanctity, but makes his “religion” a mere trade for getting money, advancing his worldly prospects, and for the better indulgence of his sensual pleasures. Dr. Cantwell is made the guest of sir John Lambert (in French “Orgon”), who looks on him as a saint, and promises him his daughter in marriage; but his mercenary views and his love-making to lady Lambert being at length exposed, sir John forbids him to remain in the house, and a tipstaff arrests him for a felonious fraud (1768).

Hypocrites (The). Abdallah ibn Obba and his partizans were so called by Mahomet.

Hypocrites (The prince of), Tiberius Cæsar (B.C. 42, 14 to A.D. 37).

Hyppolito. (See Hippolytus.)

Hyrcan Tiger. Hyrcania is in Asia Minor, south-east of the Caspian Sea. Bouillet says, “Ce pays était tout entouré de montagnes remplies de tigres.”

Restore thy fierce and cruel mind
To Hircan tigres and to ruthless bears.
   —Daniel: Sonnets (1594).

Approach thou like the Russian bear,
The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;
Take any form but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble.
   —Shakespeare: Macbeth, act iii. sc. 5 (1606).

Hythloday (Raphael), the imaginary adventurer who discovered Utopia, and gave an account of it to sir Thomas More.