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Sebastian (Don), or “The House of Braganza,” a romance by Anna Maria Porter (1800).

Sebastian I. of Brazil, who fell in the battle of Alcazarquebir in 1578. The legend is that he is not dead, but is patiently biding the fulness of time, when he will return, and make Brazil the chief kingdom of the earth. (See BARBAROSSA, p. 88.)

The same is said of Arthur, Barbarossa (q. v.), Bobadil, Charlemagne, Desmond, Henry the Fowler, Ogier, Theodorick, and some others.

In fact, in parts of France it is supposed that Napoleon will come again to restore the kingdom to its glory. And when Louis Napoleon consulted the plébiscite, many voted in his favour, under the notion that he was his uncle.

Sebastocrator (The), the chief officer of state in the empire of Greece. Same as Protosebastos.—Sir W. Scott: Count Robert of Paris (time, Rufus).

Sebile , la Dame du Lac, in the romance called Perceforest. Her castle was surrounded by a river, on which rested so thick a fog that no one could see across it. Alexander the Great abode with her a fortnight to be cured of his wounds, and king Arthur was the result of this amour (vol. i. 42).

Second Nun’s Tale (The), in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. (For the tale, see ST. CECILI, p. 948.)

Secret Hill (The). Ossian said to Oscar, when he resigned to him the command of the morrow’s battle, “Be thine the secret hill to-night,” referring to the Gaelic custom of the commander of an army retiring to a secret hill the night before a battle, to hold communion with the ghosts of departed heroes.—Ossian: Cathlin of Clutha.