AMOUR PEINTRE, a comedy by Moli[`e]re (1667). The
Sicilian is Don P[`e]dre, who has a Greek slave named Is'idore. This
slave is loved by Adraste (2 _syl._), a French gentleman, and the plot
of the comedy, turns on the way that the Frenchman allures the Greek
slave away from her master. Hearing that his friend Damon is going to
make a portrait of Isidore, he gets him to write to Don P[`e]dre a
letter of introduction, requesting that the bearer may be allowed to
take the likeness. By this ruse, Adraste reveals his love to Isidore,
and persuades her to elope. The next step is this: Za[:i]de (2 _syl._),
a young slave, pretends to have been ill-treated by Adraste, and runs to
Don P[`e]dre to crave protection. The don bids her go in, while he
intercedes with Adraste on her behalf. The Frenchman seems to relent,
and P[`e]dre calls for Za[:i]de to come forth, but Isidore comes
instead, wearing Za[:i]de's veil. Don P[`e]dre says to Adraste, "There,
take her home, and use her well!" "I will," says Adraste, and leads off
the Greek slave.

=Siddartha=, born at Gaya, in India, and known in Indian history as Buddha
(_i.e._ "The Wise").

=Sidney=, the tutor and friend of Charles Egerton McSycophant. He loves
Constantia, but conceals his passion for fear of paining Egerton, her
accepted lover.--C. Macklin, _The Man of the World_ (1764).

_Sidney_ (_Sir Philip_). Sir Philip Sidney, though suffering extreme
thirst from the agony of wounds, received in the battle of Zutphen, gave
his own draught of water to a wounded private, lying at his side,
saying, "Poor fellow, thy necessity is greater than mine."

A similar instance is recorded of Alexander "the Great," in the desert
of Gedrosia.

David, fighting against the Philistines, became so parched with thirst,
that he cried out, "Oh, that one would give me drink of the water of the
well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!" And the three mighty men broke
through the host of the Philistines, and brought him water;
nevertheless, he would not drink it, but poured it out unto the Lord.--2
_Sam._ xxiii. 15-17.

=Sidney's Sister, Pembroke's Mother.= Mary Herbert (born Sidney), countess
of Pembroke, who died 1621.

Underneath this sable hearse
Lies the subject of all verse--
Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother.
Death, ere thou hast slain another
Fair, and good, and learned as she,
Time shall throw his dart at thee.

Ben Jonson (1574-1637).

=Sid'rophe