in his horse's neighing
Than all the Phrygian, Dorian, Lydian playing.

Lord Brooke, (1554-1628).

[Asterism] Marlowe calls Tamburlaine of Tartary "a Scythian."

You shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine
Threatening the world with high astounding terms.

Marlowe, _Tamburlaine_ (prologue, 1587).

=Scythian's Name= (_The_). Humber or Humbert, king of the Huns, invaded
England during the reign of Locrin, some 1000 years B.C. In his flight,
he was drowned in the river Abus, which has ever since been called the
Humber, after "the Scythian's name."--Geoffrey, _British History_, ii. 2
(1142); and Milton's _History of England_.

Or Humber loud that keeps the Scythian's name.

Milton, _Vacation Exercise_ (1627).

=Sea-Captain= (_The_), a drama by Lord Lytton (1839). Norman, "the
sea-captain," was the son of Lady Arundel by her first husband, who was
murdered. He was born three days after his father's murder, and was
brought up by Onslow, a village priest. At 14 he went to sea, and became
the captain of a man-of-war. Lady Arundel married again, and had another
son named Percy. She wished to ignore Norman, and to settle the title
and estates on Percy, but it was not to be. Norman and Percy both loved
Violet, a ward of Lady Arundel. Violet, however, loved Norman only. A
scheme was laid to murder Norman, but failed; and at the end Norman was
acknowledged by his mother, reconciled to his brother, and married to
the ward.

=Seaforth= (_The earl of_), a royalist, in the service of King Charles
I.--Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles I.).

=Seasons= (_The_), a descriptive poem in blank verse, by James Thomson,
"Winter" (1726), "Summer" (1727), "Spring" (1728), "Autumn" (1730).
"Winter" is inscribed to the earl of Wilmington; "Summer" to Mr.
Doddington; "Spring" to the countess of Hertford; and "Autumn" to Mr.
Onslow.

1. In "Winter," after describing the season, the poet introduces his
episode of a traveller lost in a snowstorm, "the creeping cold lays him
along the snow, a stiffened corse,"[TN-164] of wife, of children, and of
friends unseen. The whole book containing 1069 lines.

2. "Summer" begins with a description of the season, and the rural
pursuits of haymaking and sheep-shearing; passes on to the hot noon,
when "nature pants, and every stream looks languid." After describing
the tumultuous character of the season in the torrid zone, he returns to
England, and descri