d has a little son named Frederick. Circumstances have occurred which
render the concealment of this marriage no longer decorous or possible,
so he breaks it to his tutor, and conceals his young wife for the nonce
in Polyglot's private room. Here she is detected by the housemaid, Molly
Maggs, who tells her master, and old Eustace says, the only reparation a
man can make in such circumstances is to marry the girl at once. "Just
so," says the tutor. "Your son is the husband, and he is willing at once
to acknowledge his wife and infant son."

=Scapin=, valet of L['e]andre, son of Seignior G['e]ronte. (See
FOURBERIES.)--Moli[`e]re, _Les Fourberies de Scapin_ (1671).

(Otway has made an English version of this play, called _The Cheats of
Scapin_, in which L['e]andre is Anglicized into "Leander," G['e]ronte is
called "Gripe," and his friend, Argante, father of Zerbinette, is called
"Thrifty," father of "Lucia."[TN-160]

=Scapi'no=, the cunning, knavish servant of Gratiano, the loquacious and
pedantic Bolognese doctor.--_Italian Mask._

=Scar= (_Little_), son of Major and Madam Carroll, believed by his father
to be legitimate, known by his mother to have been born during the
lifetime of her first husband, although she had married the major,
supposing herself a widow.--Constance Fenimore Woolson, _For the Major_.

=Scar'amouch=, a braggart and fool, most valiant in words, but constantly
being drubbed by Harlequin. Scaramouch is a common character in Italian
farce, originally meant in ridicule of the Spanish don, and therefore
dressed in Spanish costume. Our clown is an imbecile old idiot, and
wholly unlike the dashing poltroon of Italian pantomime. The best
"Scaramouches" that ever lived were Tiberio Fiurelli, a Neapolitan (born
1608), and Gandini (eighteenth century).

_Scar'borough Warning_ (_A_), a warning given too late to be taken
advantage of. Fuller says the allusion is to an event which occurred in
1557, when Thomas Stafford seized upon Scarborough Castle, before the
townsmen had any notice of his approach. Heywood says a "Scarborough
warning" resembles what is now called Lynch law: punished first, and
warned afterwards. Another solution is this: If ships passed the castle
without saluting it by striking sail, it was customary to fire into them
a shotted gun, by way of warning.

Be su[:e]rly seldom, and never for much ...
Or Scarborow warning, as ill I believe,
When ("Sir, I arrest ye") gets h