Chapter Tailors of Tooley Street to Talisman of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

rdian genii of man. Patna and Coulor, children of Giualar (imân of T erki). were permitted to hear thes e accounts rendered, and hence they have reached our earth. The genius Barhaddan related the history of his tutelary charge of Abudah, a merchant of Bagdad. The genius Mamlouk told how he had been employed in watching over the dervise Alfouran. Next, Omphram recounted his labours as the tutelar genius of Hassan Assar caliph of Bagdad. The genius Hassarack tells his experience in the tale of Kelaun and Guzzarat. The fifth was a female genius, by name Houadir, who told the tale of Urad, the fair wanderer, her ward on earth. Then rose the sage genius Macoma, and told the tale of the sultan Misnar, with the episodes of Mahoud and the princess of Cassimir. The affable Adiram, the tutelar genius of Sadak and Kalasrade, told of their battle of life. Last of all rose the venerable genius Nadan, and recounted the history of his earthly charge named Mirglip the dervise. These tales, by James Ridley, 1765, are said to be from the Persian, and are ascribed to Horam son of Asmar.

Tales of the Hall, poems by Crabbe (1819).

Talgol, a butcher in Newgate market, who obtained a captain’s commission in Cromwell’s army for his bravery at Naseby.

Talgol was of courage stout …
Inured to labour, sweat, and toil,
And, like a champion, shone with oil …
He many a boar and huge dun cow
Did, like another Guy, o’erthrow …
With greater troops of sheep he’d fought
Than Ajax or bold don Quixote.
   —S. Butler: Hudibras, i. 2 (1663).

Taliesin or Taliessin, son of St. Henwig, chief of the bards of the West, in the time of king Arthur (sixth century). In the Mabinogion are given the legends connected with him, several specimens of his songs, and all that is historically known about him. The bursting in of the sea through the neglect of Seithenin, who had charge of the embankment, and the ruin which it brought on Gwyddno Garanhir, is allegorized by the bursting of a pot called the “caldron of inspiration,” through the neglect of Gwion Bach, who was set to watch it.

That Taliessen, once which made the rivers dance.
And in his rapture raised the mountains from their trance.
Shall tremble at my verse.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, iv. (1612).

Talisman (The), a novel by sir W. Scott, and one of the best of the thirty-two which he wrote (1825). It is the story of Richard Cœur de Lion being cured of a fever in the Holy Land, by the soldan. His noble enemy Saladin, hearing of his illness, assumed the disguise of Adonbec el Hakim, the physician, and visited the king. He filled a cup with spring water, into which he dipped the talisman, a little red purse that he took from his bosom, and when it had been steeped long enough, he gave the draught to the king to drink (ch. ix.). During the king’s sickness, the archduke of Austria planted his own banner beside that of England; but immediately Richard recovered from his fever, he tore it down, and gave it in custody to sir Kenneth. While Kenneth was absent, he left his dog in charge of the banner; but on his return, found the dog wounded and the banner stolen. King Richard, in his rage, ordered sir Kenneth to execution, but pardoned him at the intercession of “the physician” (Saladin). Sir Kenneth’s dog showed such a strange aversion to the marquis de Montserrat that suspicion was aroused, the marquis was challenged to single combat, and, being overthrown by sir Kenneth, confessed that he had stolen the banner. The love-story interwoven is that between sir Kenneth the prince royal of Scotland, and lady Edith Plantagenet the king’s kinswoman, with whose marriage the tale concludes.

This aversion of the dog is very like the aversion of Montdidier’s dog Dragon to Macaire. (See Macaire, p. 646.)