Chapter Three Kings of Cologne to Thule of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Three Tribe Herdsmen of Britain (The): (1) Llawnrodded Varvawe, who tended the milch cows of Nudd Hael son of Senyllt; (2) Bennren, who kept the herd of Caradawc son of Brân, Glamorganshire; (3) Gwdion son of Don the enchanter, who kept the kine of Gwynedd above the Conway. All these herds consisted of 21,000 milch cows.—Welsh Triads, lxxxv.

Three Tyrants of Athens (The): Pisistratos (B.C. 560–490), Hippias and Hipparchos (B.C. 527–490).

(The two brothers reigned conjointly from 527–514, when the latter was murdered.)

Three Unprofessional Bards (The) of the island of Britain: (1) Rhyawd son of Morgant; (2) king Arthur; (3) Cadwallawn son of Cadvan.—Welsh Triads, lxxxix. 113.

Three Warnings, a poem by Mrs. Piozzi, showing that the infirmities of age, such as the loss of physical strength, of hearing, and of sight, are three warnings of approaching decay (about 1800).

Three Weeks after Marriage, a comedy by A. Murphy (1776). Sir Charles Racket has married the daughter of a rich London tradesman, and three weeks of the honeymoon having expired, he comes on a visit to the lady’s father, Mr. Drugget. Old Drugget plumes himself on his aristocratic son-in-law, so far removed from the vulgar brawls of meaner folk. On the night of their arrival, the bride and bridegroom quarrel about a game of whist; the lady maintained that sir Charles ought to have played a diamond instead of a club. So angry is sir Charles that he resolves to have a divorce; and although the quarrel is patched up, Mr. Drugget has seen enough of the beau monde to decline the alliance of Lovelace for his second daughter, whom he gives to a Mr. Woodley.

Pope and Gay wrote a farce called Three Hours after Marriage (1717).

Three Writers (The). (See Scriptores Tres, p. 973.)

Thresher (Captain), the feigned leader of a body of lawless Irishmen, who attacked, in 1806, the collectors of tithes and their subordinates.

Captain Right was a leader of the rebellious peasantry in the south of Ireland in the eighteenth century.

Captain Rock was the assumed name of a leader of Irish insurgents in 1822.

Throgmorton Street (London). So named from sir Nicholas Throckmorton, banker (1513–1571).

(Sir Nicholas took part in Wyatt’s rebellion.)

Thrummy-Cap, a sprite which figures in the fairy tales of Northumberland. He was a “queer-looking little auld man,” whose scene of exploits generally lay in the vaults and cellars of old castles. John Skelton, in his Colyn Clout, calls him Tom-a-Thrum, and says that the clergy could neither write nor read, and were no wiser than this cellar sprite.

Thrush (Song of the).

White hat, white hat;
Cherry do, cherry do;
Pretty Joe, pretty Joe.

The Storm Thrush, calling for rain, says—

Bill Peters, Bill Peters,
Bill Peters, Bill Peters,
Kiss me quick.

Thule , the most remote norther n portion of the world known to the ancient Greeks and Romans; but whether an island or part of a continent nobody knows. It is first mentioned by Pytheas, the Greek navigator, who says it is “six days sail from Britain,” and that its climate is a “mixture of earth, air, and sea.” Ptolemy, with more exactitude, tells us that the 63º of north latitude runs through the middle of Thulê, and adds