vary, in Aquitane.--_Valentine and Orson_ (fifteenth century).

=Orson and Ellen.= Young Orson was a comely young farmer from Taunton,
stout as an oak, and very fond of the lasses, but he hated matrimony,
and used to say, "the man who can buy milk is a fool to keep a cow."
While still a lad, Orson made love to Ellen, a rustic maiden; but, in
the fickleness of youth, forsook her for a richer lass, and Ellen left
the village, wandered far away, and became waiting maid to old Boniface,
the innkeeper. One day Orson happened to stop at this very inn, and
Ellen waited on him. Five years had passed since they had seen each
other, and at first neither knew the other. When, however, the facts
were known, Orson made Ellen his wife, and their marriage feast was
given by Boniface himself.--Peter Pindar [Dr. Wolcot], _Orson and Ellen_
(1809).

=Ortel'lius= (_Abraham_), a Dutch geographer, who published in 1570, his
_Theatrum Orbis Terrae_, or _Universal Geography_ (1527-1598).

I more could tell to prove the place our own,
Than by his spacious maps are by Ortellius shown.

Drayton, _Polyolbion_, vi. (1612).

=Ortheris=, cockney companion of Mulvaney. He suffers violently from
homesickness in India.--Rudyard Kipling, _Soldiers Three_.

=Orthodoxy.= When Lord Sandwich said, "he did not know the difference
between orthodoxy and heterodoxy," Warburton, bishop of Gloucester,
replied, "Orthodoxy, my lord, is _my_ doxy, and heterodoxy is _another
man's_ doxy."

_Orthodoxy_ (_The Father of_), Athanasius (296-373).

=Orthrus=, the two-headed dog of Euryt'ion, the herdsman of Geryon'eo. It
was the progeny of Typha'on and Echidna.

With his two-headed dogge that Orthrus hight,
Orthrus begotten by great Typhaon
And foule Echidna in the house of Night.

Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, v., 10 (1596).

=Ortwine= (2 _syl._), knight of Metz, sister's son of Sir Hagan of Trony,
a Burgundian.--_The Nibelungen Lied_ (eleventh century).

=Or'ville= (_Lord_), the amiable and devoted lover of Evelina, whom he
ultimately marries.--Miss Burney, _Evelina_ (1778).

=Osbaldistone= (_Mr._), a London merchant.

_Frank Osbaldistone_, his son, in love with Diana Vernon, whom he
marries.

_Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone_, of Osbaldistone Hall, uncle of Frank, his
heir.

_His Sons_ were: Percival, "the sot;" Thorncliffe, "the bully;" John,
"the gamekeeper;" Richard, "the horse-jockey:"[TN-53] Wilfred, "the
foo