r at Godfrey, but it struck Sig[=e]ro, who "rejoiced to suffer in
his sovereign's place."--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_, xi. (1575).

=Sightly= (_Captain_), a dashing young officer, who runs away with
Priscilla Tomboy, but subsequently obtains her guardian's consent to
marry her.--_The Romp_ (altered from Bickerstaff's _Love in the City_).

=Sigismonda=, daughter of Tancred, king of Salerno. She fell in love with
Guiscardo, her father's squire, revealed to him her love, and married
him in a cavern attached to the palace. Tancred discovered them in each
other's embrace, and gave secret orders to waylay the bridegroom and
strangle him. He then went to Sigismonda, and reproved her for her
degrading choice, which she boldly justified. Next day, she received a
human heart in a gold casket, knew instinctively that it was
Guiscardo's, and poisoned herself. Her father being sent for, she
survived just long enough to request that she might be buried in the
same grave as her young husband, and Tancred:

Too late repenting of his cruel deed,
One common sepulchre for both decreed;
Intombed the wretched pair in royal state,
And on their monument inscribed their fate.

Dryden, _Sigismonda and Guiscardo_ (from Boccaccio).

=Sigismund=, emperor of Austria.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_
(time, Edward IV.).

=Sigismunda=, daughter of Siffr[=e]di, lord high chancellor of Sicily, and
betrothed to Count Tancred. When King Roger died, he left the crown of
Sicily to Tancred, on condition that he married Constantia, by which
means the rival lines would be united, and the country saved from civil
war. Tancred gave a tacit consent, intending to obtain a dispensation;
but Sigismunda, in a moment of wounded pride, consented to marry Earl
Osmond. When King Tancred obtained an interview with Sigismunda, to
explain his conduct, Osmond challenged him, and they fought. Osmond
fell, and when his wife ran to him, he thrust his sword into her and
killed her.--J. Thomson, _Tancred and Sigismunda_ (1745).

[Asterism] This tragedy is based on "The Baneful Marriage," an episode
in _Gil Blas_, founded on fact.

_Sigismunda_, the heroine of Cervantes's last work of fiction. This tale
is a tissue of episodes, full of most incredible adventures, astounding
prodigies, impossible characters, and extravagant sentiments. It is said
that Cervantes himself preferred it to his _Don Quixote_, just as
Corneille preferred _Nicomed