hither, unless he comes without delay to
do me homage." By the advice of Merlin, the two brothers, Balin and
Balan, set upon the insolent king, on his way to Lady De Vauce,
overthrew him, slew "more than forty of his men, and the remnant fled."
King Ryence craved for mercy; so "they laid him on a horse-litter, and
sent him captive to King Arthur."--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince
Arthur_, i. 24, 34 (1470).

=Rymar= (_Mr. Robert_), poet at the Spa.--Sir W. Scott, _St. Ronan's Well_
(time, George III.).

=Ryno=, youngest of the sons of Fingal, king of Morven. He fell in the
battle of Lena between the Norsemen led by Swaran and the Irish led by
Fingal.

"Rest!" said Fingal; "youngest of my sons, rest! Rest, O Ryno, on
Lena! We, too, shall be no more. Warriors must one day
fall."--Ossian, _Fingal_, v.

=Ryparog'rapher of Wits=, Rabelais (1495-1553).

[Asterism] Greek, _rup[)a]ros_ ("foul, nasty"). Pliny calls Pyr[)i]cus
the painter a "ryparographer."

=Rython=, a giant of Brittany, slain by King Arthur. (See RITHO.)

Rython, the mighty giant, slain,
By his good brand relieved Bretagne.

Sir W. Scott, _Bridal of Triermain_, ii. 11 (1813).

=Saadi= or =Sadi=, the Persian poet, called "The Nightingale of a Thousand
Songs." His poems are _The Gulistan_ or "Garden of Roses," _The Boston_
or "Garden of Fruits," and _The Pend N[^a]meh_, a moral poem. Saadi
(1184-1263) was one of the "Four Monarchs of Eloquence."

=Saba= or =Zaba= (_The Queen of_), called Balkis. She came to the court of
Solomon, and had by him a son named Melech. This queen of Ethiopia or
Abyssinia is sometimes called Maqueda.--Zaga Zabo, _Ap. Damian. a Goes._

The _Kor[^a]n_ (ch. xxvii.) tells us that Solomon summoned before him all
the birds to the valley of ants, but the lapwing did not put in an
appearance. Solomon was angry, and was about to issue an order of death,
when the bird presented itself, saying, "I come from Saba, where I found
a queen reigning in great magnificence, but she and her subjects worship
the sun." On hearing this, Solomon sent back the lapwing to Saba with a
letter, which the bird was to drop at the foot of the queen, commanding
her to come at once, submit herself unto him, and accept from him the
"true religion." So she came in great state, with a train of 500 slaves
of each sex, bearing 500 "bricks of solid gold," a crown, and sundry
other presents.

=Sabbath-Breakers.= The