Chapter Valladolid to Vanoc of V by Brewer's Readers Handbook

tears for that better land, where there is no more sorrow, but pleasures for evermore.” Their next visit was to a wedding, where the bride was young and the man old, and she said aloud, “It is the devil’s compact. The bride has sold herself for gold.” The farmer again struck her, and bade her hold her peace; but she vanished away, and never again returned.—Welsh Mythology.

Van Tromp. The van preceding this proper name is a blunder.

“Van” before Tromp…is a gross mistake,… as ludicrous as Van Cromwell or Van Monk.—Notis and Queries, November 17, 1877.

Vanbeest Brown (Captain), alias Dawson, alias Dudley, alias Harry Bertram, son of Mr. Godfrey Bertram laird of Ellangowan.

Vanbeest Brown, lieutenant of Dirk Hatteraick,—Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering (time, George II.).

Vanberg (Major), in Charles XII., by J. R. Planché (1826).

Vanda, wife of Baldric. She is the spirit with the red hand, who appears in the haunted chamber to the lady Eveline Berenger “the betrothed.”—Sir W. Scott: The Betrothed (time, Henry II.).

Vanderdecken, in Fitzbald’s Flying Dutchman, a melodrama revived by sir Henry Irving in 1830.

Vandunke, burgomaster of Bruges, a drunken merchant, friendly to Gerrard king of the beggars, and falsely considered to be the father of Bertha. His wife’s name is Margaret. (Bertha is in reality the daughter of the duke of Brabant)—Fletcher: The Beggar’s Bush (1622).

Vandyck in Little, Samuel Cooper. In his epitaph in old St. Pancras Church, he is called “the Apellês of his age” (1609–1672).

The English Vandyck, W. Dobson, artist (1610–1647).

The Vandyck of Francnce, Hyacinth Rigaud y Ros (1659–1743).

The Vandyck of Sculpture, Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720).

Vanessa, Miss Esther Vanhomrigh, a young lady who proposed marriage to dean Swift. The dean declined the proposal in a poetical trifle called Cadenus and Vanessa.

(Essa, i.e. Esther, and Van, the pet form of Vanhomrigh; hence Van-essa.)

Vanity, the usher of queen Lucifera. —Spenser: Faerie Queene, i. 4 (1590).

Vanity, a town through which Christian and Faithful had to pass on their way to the Celestial City.

Almost five thousan d years agone, there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial City…and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion…perceived, by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity.—Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress, i. (1678).

Vanity Fair, a fair established by Beëlzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, for the sale of earthly “vanities,” creature comforts, honours, decorations, and carnal delights. It was held in Vanity town, and lasted all the year round. Christian and Faithful had to pass through the fair, which they denounced, and were consequently arrested, beaten, and put into a cage. Next day, being taken before justice Hate-good, Faithfull was condemned to be burnt alive.—Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress, i. (1678).

Vanity Fair, a looking-glass.