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PRINCE ALBERT died Saturday, December 14, 1861. The duchess of Kent and
the Princess Alice also died on a Saturday.

[Asterism] William III., Anne, and George I., all died on a Sunday;
William IV. on a Tuesday.

=Saturn=, son of Heaven and Earth. He always swallowed his children
immediately they were born, till his wife, Rhea, not liking to see all
her children perish, concealed from him the birth of Jupiter, Neptune,
and Pluto, and gave her husband large stones instead, which he swallowed
without knowing the difference.

Much as old Saturn ate his progeny;
For when his pious consort gave him stones
In lieu of sons, of those he made no bones.

Byron, _Don Juan_, xiv. 1 (1824).

_Saturn_, an evil and malignant planet.

He is a genius full of gall, an author born under the planet
Saturn, a malicious mortal whose pleasure consists in hating all
the world.--Lesage, _Gil Blas_, v. 12 (1724).

The children born under the sayd Saturne shall be great jangeleres
and chyders ... and they will never forgyve tyll they be revenged
of theyr quarrell.--Ptholomeus, _Compost_.

=Satyr.= T. Woolner calls Charles II. "Charles the Satyr."

Next flared Charles Satyr's saturnalia
Of lady nymphs.

_My Beautiful Lady._

[Asterism] The most famous statue of the satyrs is that by
Praxit[)e]l[^e]s, of Athens, in the fourth century.

=Satyrane= (_Sir_), a blunt, but noble knight, who helps Una to escape
from the fauns and satyrs.--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, i. (1590).

And passion erst unknown, could gain
The breast of blunt Sir Satyrane.

Sir W. Scott.

[Asterism] "Sir Satyrane" is meant for Sir John Perrot, a natural son of
Henry VIII., and lord deputy of Ireland, from 1583 to 1588; but, in
1590, he was in prison in the Tower for treason, and was beheaded in
1592.

=Satyr'icon=, a comic romance in Latin, by Petro'nius Ar'biter, in the
first century. Very gross, but showing great power, beauty, and skill.

=Saul=, in Dryden's satire of _Absalom and Achitophel_, is meant for
Oliver Cromwell. As Saul persecuted David, and drove him from Jerusalem,
so Cromwell persecuted Charles II., and drove him from England.

... ere Saul they chose,
God was their king, and God they durst depose.

Pt. i. (1681).

[Asterism] This was the "divine right" of kings.

=Saunders=, groom of Sir Geoffrey Peveril of the Peak.--Sir W