hat Seth has murdered him,
and for her sake, promises to keep the deed secret. The horror of the
supposition and her readiness to believe him capable of the crime,
dispels Seth's unholy illusion and sends him back to his first love, who
has always been his good angel.--Harold Frederic, _Seth's Brother's
Wife_ (1887).

=Settle= (_Elkana_), the poet, introduced by Sir W. Scott in _Peveril of
the Peak_ (time, Charles II.).

=Seven Champions of Christendom= (_The_): St. George for England; St.
Andrew for Scotland; St. Patrick for Ireland; St. David for Wales; St.
Denis for France; St. James for Spain; and St. Anthony for Italy.

[Asterism] Richard Johnson wrote _The Famous History of the Seven
Champions of Christendom_ (1617).

=Seven=, Rienzi's Number.

October 7, Rienzi's foes yielded to his power.
7 months Rienzi reigned as tribune.
7 years he was absent in exile.
7 weeks of return saw him without an enemy (Oct. 7).
7 was the number of the crowns the Roman convents and the Roman
council awarded him.

=Seven Sleepers= (_The_). The tale of these sleepers is told in divers
manners. The best accounts are those in the _Kor[^a]n_ xviii., entitled,
"The Cave, Revealed at Mecca;" _The Golden Legends_, by Jacques de
Voragine; the _De Gloria Martyrum_, i. 9, by Gregory of Tours; and the
_Oriental Tales_, by Comte de Caylus (1743).

_Names of the Seven Sleepers._ Gregory of Tours says their names were:
Constantine, Dionysius, John, Maximian, Malchus, Martinian or Marcian,
and Serap[)i]on. In the _Oriental Tales_ the names given are: Jemlikha,
Mekchilinia, Mechlima, Merlima, Debermouch, Charnouch, and the shepherd
Keschetiouch. Their names are not given in the _Kor[^a]n_.

_Number of the Sleepers._ Al Seyid, a Jacobite Christian of Najr[^a]n,
says the sleepers were only three, with their dog; others maintain that
their number was five, besides the dog; but Al Beid[^a]wi, who is
followed by most authorities, says they were seven, besides the dog.

_Duration of the Sleep._ The _Kor[^a]n_ says it was "300 years and nine
years over;" the _Oriental Tales_ say the same; but if Gregory of Tours
is followed, the duration of the sleep was barely 230 years.

_The Legend of the Seven Sleepers._ (1) According to Gregory of Tours.
Gregory says they were seven noble youths of Ephesus, who fled in the
Decian persecution to a cave in Mount Celion, the mouth of which was
blocked up by stones. Afte