l
(Fingal's father) when he attacked Balcutha and burned it to the
ground.--Ossian, _Carthon_.

=Reutner= (_Karl_), young German, serving in the Federal army, finds, on
the Gettysburg battle-field, a four-leafed clover, and waves it in the
air. The gesture attracts a sharp-shooter, and Reutner falls insensible.
He is taken from hospital to prison, and languishes for weeks, in
delirium, all the while haunted by a vision of a woman, dark-eyed and
beautiful, who brings him handfuls of four-leaved clover. When he
reaches home, he recognizes her in Margaret Warren, a guest in his
father's house. The betrothal-ring bears a four-leaved clover of green
enamel, set in diamonds.--Helen Hunt Jackson, _A Four-Leaved Clover_
(1886).

=Rev'eller= (_Lady_), cousin of Valeria, the blue-stocking. Lady Reveller
is very fond of play, but ultimately gives it up, and is united to Lord
Worthy.--Mrs. Centlivre, _The Basset Table_ (1706).

=Revenge= (_The_), a tragedy by Edward Young (1721). (For the plot, see
ZANGA.)

_Revenge_ (_The_), the ship under the command of Sir Richard Grenville,
anchored at Flores, in the Azores, when a fleet of fifty-three Spanish
ships hove in sight. Lord Thomas Howard, with six men-of-war, sailed
off; but Sir Richard stood his ground. He had only a hundred men, but
with this crew and his one ship, he encountered the Spanish fleet. The
fight was very obstinate. Some of the Spanish ships were sunk, and many
shattered; but Sir Richard at length was wounded, and the surgeon shot
while dressing the wound. "Sink the ship, master gunner!" cried Sir
Richard; "sink the ship, and let her not fall into the hands of Spain!"
But the crew were obliged to yield, and Sir Richard died. The Spaniards
were amazed at Grenville's pluck, and gave him all honors, as they cast
his body into the sea. _The Revenge_ was then manned by Spaniards, but
never reached the Spanish coast, for it was wrecked in a tempest, and
went down with all hands aboard.--Tennyson, _The Revenge_, a ballad of
the fleet (1878).

[Asterism] This sea-fight is the subject of one of Froude's essays.

Canon Kingsley has introduced it in _Westward Ho!_ where he gives a
description of Sir Richard Grenville.

Lord Bacon says the fight "was memorable even beyond credit, and to the
height of heroic fable."

Mr. Arber published three interesting contemporary documents relating to
_The Revenge_, by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Gervase Markham wrote a long poem on