Who ravished Howell's niece, young Helena, the fair.

Drayton, _Polyolbion_, iv. (1612).

=Rival Queens= (_The_), Stati'ra and Roxa'na. Stat[=i]ra was the daughter
of Dar[=i]us, and wife of Alexander the Great. Roxana was the daughter
of Oxyart[^e]s, the Bactrian; her, also, Alexander married. Roxana stabbed
Statira, and killed her.--N. Lee, _Alexander the Great_, or _The Rival
Queens_ (1678).

=Rivals= (_The_), a comedy by Sheridan (1775). The rivals are Bob Acres
and Ensign Beverley (_alias_ Captain Absolute), and Lydia Languish is
the lady they contend for. Bob Acres tells Captain Absolute that Ensign
Beverley is a booby; and if he could find him out, he'd teach him his
place. He sends a challenge to the unknown, by Sir Lucius O'Trigger, but
objects to forty yards, and thinks thirty-eight would suffice. When he
finds that Ensign Beverley is Captain Absolute, he declines to quarrel
with his friend; and when his second calls him a coward, he fires up and
exclaims, "Coward! Mind, gentlemen, he calls me a 'coward,' coward by my
valor!" and when dared by Sir Lucius, he replies, "I don't mind the word
'coward;' 'coward' may be said in a joke; but if he called me
'poltroon,' ods, daggers and balls----" "Well, sir, what then?" "Why,"
rejoined Bob Acres, "I should certainly think him very ill-bred." Of
course, he resigns all claim to the lady's hand.

=River of Juvenescence.= Prester John, in his letter to Manuel
Comn[=e]nus, emperor of Constantinople, says there is a spring at the
foot of Mount Olympus, which changes its flavor hour by hour, both night
and day. Whoever tastes thrice of its waters, will never know fatigue or
the infirmities of age.

=River of Paradise=, St. Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux (1091-1153).

=Rivers Arise....= In this _Vacation Exercise_, George Rivers (son of Sir
John Rivers of Westerham, in Kent), with nine other freshmen, took the
part of the ten "Predicaments," while Milton himself performed the part
of "Ens." Without a doubt, the pun suggested the idea in Milton's
_Vacation Exercise_ (1627):

Rivers arise; whether thou be the son
Of utmost Tweed, or Ouse, or gulpy Don,
Or Trent, who, like some earthborn giant, spreads
His thirty arms along the indented meads,
Or sullen Mole that runneth underneath,
Or Severn swift, guilty of maiden's death,
Or rocky Avon, or of sedgy Lee,
Or cooly Tyne, or ancient hallowed Dee,
Or Humber loud that keeps