or, whereupon they
fought, and Rodomont was slain.--_Orlando Innamorato_ (1495); and
_Orlando Furioso_ (1516).

Who so meek? I'm sure I quake at the very thought of him; why, he's
as fierce as Rodomont!--Dryden, _Spanish Fryar_, v. 2 (1680).

[Asterism] Rodomontade (4 _syl._), from Rodomont, a bragging although a
brave knight.

=Rogel of Greece= (_The Exploits and Adventures of_), part of the series
called _Le Roman des Romans_, pertaining to "Am'adis of Gaul." This part
was added by Feliciano de Silva.

=Roger=, the cook who "cowde roste, sethe, broille, and frie, make
mortreux, and wel bake a pye."--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ (1388).

_Roger_ (_Sir_), curate to "The Scornful Lady" (no name
given).--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Scornful Lady_ (1616).

=Roger Armstrong=, clerical lover of Faith Gartney, and her preferred
suitor.--A. D. T. Whitney, _Faith Gartney's Girlhood_.

=Roger Bontemps=, the personation of contentment with his station in life,
and of the buoyancy of good hope. "There's a good time coming, John."

Vous pauvres, pleins d'envi[`e];
Vous rich, d['e]sireux;
Vous dont le char d['e]vie
Apr[`e]s un cours heureux;
Vous qui perdrez peut-[^e]tre
Des titres ['e]clatans;
Eh! gai! prenez pour maitre
Le gros Roger Bontemps.

B['e]ranger (1780-1856).

Ye poor, with envy goaded;
Ye rich, for more who long;
Ye who by fortune loaded
Find all things going wrong;
Ye who by some disaster
See all your cables break;
From henceforth, for your master
Sleek Roger Bontemps take.

=Roger Chillingworth=, deformed husband of Hester Prynne. He returns to
Boston from a long sojourn with the Indians, and sees his wife in the
pillory with a baby--not his--in her arms. From that instant he sets
himself to work to discover the name of her seducer, and, suspecting
Arthur Dimmesdale, attaches himself to the oft-ailing clergyman as his
medical attendant. He it is who first suspects the existence of the
cancer that is devouring the young clergyman's life, and when the
horrible thing is revealed, kneels by the dying man with the bitter
whisper, "Thou hast escaped me!"--Nathaniel Hawthorne, _The Scarlet
Letter_ (1850).

=Roger de Coverley= (_Sir_), an hypothetical baronet of Coverley or
Cowley, near Oxford.--Addison, _The Spectator_ (1711, 1712, 1714).

[Asterism] The prototype of this famous character was Sir Jo