duced by Sir W.
Scott, in three of his novels.--_Woodstock_, _Legend of Montrose_, and
_Peveril of the Peak_.

_Rupert_ (_Sir_), in love with Catharine.--S. Knowles, _Love_ (1840).

=Rupert of Debate.= Edward Geoffrey, earl of Derby, when he was Mr.
Stanley, was so called by Lord Lytton (1799-1869).

=Rupert Clare.= Desperate lover, who skates with "handsome Madge" straight
toward the rotten ice. Seeing their danger and his revengeful resolve,
she shrieks out the name of her betrothed who, unknown to her and the
rejected suitor, has followed them. "He hurls himself upon the pair,"
and rescues his affianced.

"The lovers stand with heart to heart,
'No more,' they cry, 'no more to part!"[TN-140]
But still along the lone lagoon
The steel skates ring a ghostly tune,
And in the moonlight, pale and cold,
The panting lovers still behold
The self-appointed sacrifice
Skating toward the rotten ice!"

Fitz-James O'Brien, _Poems and Stories_.

=Rush= (_Friar_), a house-spirit, sent from the infernal regions in the
seventeenth century to keep the monks and friars in the same state of
wickedness they then were.

[Asterism] The legends of this roistering friar are of German origin.
(_Bruder Rausch_ means "Brother Tipple.")

Milton confounds "Jack-o'-Lantern" with Friar Rush. The latter was not a
_field bogie_ at all, and was never called "Jack." Probably Milton meant
a friar[TN-141] with a rush-[light]." Sir Walter Scott also falls into
the same error:

Better we had thro' mire and bush
Been lantern-led by Friar Rush.

_Marmion_ (1808).

=Rusil'la=, mother of Roderick, the last of the Goths, and wife of
Theodofred, rightful heir to the Spanish throne.--Southey, _Roderick,
etc._ (1814).

=Rusport= (_Lady_), second wife of Sir Stephen Rusport, a City knight, and
step-mother of Charlotte Rusport. Very proud, very mean, very
dogmatical, and very vain. Without one spark of generosity or loving
charity in her composition. She bribes her lawyer to destroy a will, but
is thwarted in her dishonesty. Lady Rusport has a _tendresse_ for Major
O'Flaherty; but the major discovers the villainy of the old woman, and
escapes from this Scylla.

_Charlotte Rusport_, step-daughter of Lady Rusport. An amiable,
ingenuous, animated, handsome girl, in love with her cousin, Charles
Dudley, whom she marries.--R. Cumberland, _The West Indian_ (1771).

=Russet= (_Mr._), the choleric