n the years 1747 and
1757. They are called Richardus Corinensis [of Cirencester], _De Situ
Britanniae_; Gildas Badon[)i]cus; and Nennius Banchorensis [of
Bangor].--J. E. Mayor, in his preface to _Ricardi de Cirencestria
Speculum Historiale_, has laid bare this literary forgery.

=Scripture.= Parson Adams's wife said to her husband that in her opinion
"it was blasphemous to talk of Scriptures out of church."--Fielding,
_Joseph Andrews_.

A great impression in my youth
Was made by Mrs. Adams, where she cries,
"That Scriptures out of church are blasphemous."

Byron, _Don Juan_, xiii. 96 (1824).

=Scroggen=, a poor hack author, celebrated by Goldsmith in his
_Description of an Author's Bedchamber_.

=Scroggens=, (_Giles_), a peasant, who courted Molly Bawn, but died just
before the wedding day. Molly cried and cried for him, till she cried
herself fast asleep. Fancying that she saw Giles Scroggens's ghost
standing at her bedside, she exclaimed in terror, "What do you want?"
"You for to come for to go along with me," replied the ghost. "I ben't
dead, you fool!" said Molly; but the ghost rejoined, "Why, that's no
rule." Then, clasping her round the waist, he exclaimed, "Come, come
with me, ere morning beam." "I won't!" shrieked Molly, and woke to find
"'twas nothing but a dream."--_A Comic Ballad._

=Scroggs= (_Sir William_), one of the judges.--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of
the Peak_ (time, Charles II.).

=Scrooge= (_Ebenezer_), partner, executor, and heir of old Jacob Marley,
stock-broker. When first introduced, he is "a squeezing, grasping,
covetous old hunks, sharp and hard as a flint;" without one particle of
sympathy, loving no one, and by none beloved. One Christmas Day Ebenezer
Scrooge sees three ghosts; The Ghost of Christmas Past; Ghost of
Christmas Present; and the Ghost of Christmas To-come. The first takes
him back to his young life, shows him what Christmas was to him when a
schoolboy, and when he was an apprentice; reminds him of his courting a
young girl, whom he forsook as he grew rich; and shows him that
sweetheart of his young days married to another, and the mother of a
happy family. The second ghost shows him the joyous home of his clerk,
Bob Cratchit, who has nine people to keep on 15_s._ a week, and yet
could find wherewithal to make merry on this day; it also shows him the
family of his nephew, and of others. The third ghost shows him what
would be his lot if he die