Chapter Trees of the Sun and Moon to Triboulet of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

at night-time, and he would have spoken before, but did not like to bring his young mistress into trouble. Thorold wrung from his sister an acknowledgment of the fact, but she refused to give up the name, yet said she was quite willing to marry the earl. This Thorold thought would be dishonourable and resolved to lie in wait for the unknown visitor. On his approach, Thorold discovered it was the earl of Mertoun, and slew him, then poisoned himself, and Mildred died of a broken heart.—R. Browning: A Blot on the ’Scutcheon.

Tressilian (Edmund), the betrothed of Amy Robsart. Amy marries the earl of Leicester, and is killed by falling into a deep pit, to which she had been scandalously inveigled.—Sir W. Scott: Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth).

Trevisan (Sir), a knight to whom Despair gave a hempen rope, that he might go and hang himself.—Spenser: Faërie Queene, i. (1590).

Triads (The Welsh), groups of history, bardism, theology, ethics, and jurisprudence, arranged into threes. From the tenth to the fifteenth century. (See Three…, pp. 1102-4.)

Triamond, son of Agape (3syl), a fairy. He had Canace (3syl to wife.— Spenser: Faërie Queene, bk. iv. (1596).

Triboulet, a nickname given to Francis Hotman, court fool of Louis XII. This worthy is introduced by Rabelais, in his History of Gargantua and Pantagruel (1533), and by Victor Hugo in his tragedy Le Roi s’amuse.