e_ to his _Cid_, and Milton _Paradise
Regained_ to his _Paradise Lost_.--_Encyc. Brit._, Art. "Romance."

=Sigurd=, the hero of an old Scandinavian legend. Sigurd discovered
Brynhild, encased in a complete armor, lying in a death-like sleep, to
which she had been condemned by Odin. Sigurd woke her by opening her
corselet, fell in love with her, promised to marry her, but deserted her
for Gudrun. This ill-starred union was the cause of an _Iliad_ of woes.

An analysis of this romance was published by Weber in his _Illustrations
of Northern Antiquities_ (1810).

=Sijil= (_Al_), the recording angel.

On that day we will roll up the heavens as the angel Al Sijil
rolleth up the scroll wherein every man's actions are
recorded.--_Al Kor[^a]n_, xxi.

=Sikes= (_Bill_), a burglar, and one of Fagin's associates. Bill Sikes
was a hardened, irreclaimable villian,[TN-178] but had a conscience
which almost drove him mad after the murder of Nancy, who really loved
him (ch. xlviii.) Bill Sikes (1 _syl._) had an ill-conditioned savage
dog, the beast-image of his master, which he kicked and loved,
ill-treated and fondled.--C. Dickens, _Oliver Twist_ (1837).

The French "Bill Sikes" is "Jean Hiroux," a creation of Henry Monnier.

=Sikundra= (_The_), a mausoleum about six miles from Agra, raised by
Akhbah "the Great."

=Silence=, a country justice of asinine dullness when sober, but when in
his cups of most uproarious mirth. He was in the commission of the peace
with his cousin Robert Shallow.

_Falstaff._ I did not think Master Silence had been a man of this
mettle.

_Silence._ Who, I? I have been merry twice and once, ere
now.--Shakespeare, 2 _Henry IV._, act vi. sc. 3 (1598).

=Sile'no=, husband of Mysis; a kind-hearted man, who takes pity on Apollo
when cast to earth by Jupiter, and gives him a home.--Kane O'Hara,
_Midas_ (1764).

=Silent= (_The_), William I., prince of Orange (1533-1584). It was the
principle of Napoleon III., emperor of the French, to "hear, see, and
say nothing."

=Silent Man= (_The_), the barber of Bagdad, the greatest chatterbox that
ever lived. Being sent for to shave the head and beard of a young man
who was to visit the cadi's daughter at noon, he kept him from daybreak
to midday, prating, to the unspeakable annoyance of the customer. Being
subsequently taken before the caliph, he ran on telling story after
story about his six brothers. He was ca