Talbot [1778-1831].
He reigns o'er comedy supreme..
None show for light and airy sport,
So exquisite a Doricourt.

Crofton Croaker.

DO'RIDON, a beautiful swain, nature's "chiefest work," more beautiful
than Narcissus, Ganymede, or Adonis.--Wm. Browne, _Britannia's
Pastorals_ (1613).

DO'RIGEN, a lady of high family, who married Arvir'agus out of pity
for his love and meekness. Aurelius sought to entice her away, but
she said she would never listen to his suit till on the British coast
"there n'is no stone y-seen." Aurelius by magic caused all the stones
to disappear, and when Dorigen went and said that her husband insisted
on her keeping her word, Aurelius, seeing her dejection, replied,
he would sooner die than injure so true a wife and noble a
gentleman.--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ ("The Franklin's Tale," 1388).

(This is substantially the same as Boccaccio's tale of _Dianora and
Gilberto_, x. 6. See Dianora.)

DOR'IMANT, a genteel, witty libertine. The original of this character
was the Earl of Rochester--G. Etherege, _The Man of Mode_ or _Sir
Fopling Flutter_ (1676).

The Dorimants and the Lady Touchwoods, in their own sphere, do not
offend my moral sense; in fact, they do not appeal to it at all.--C.
Lamb.

(The "Lady Touchwood" in Congreve's _Double Dealer_, not the "Lady
Francis Touchwood" in Mrs. Cowley's _Belle's Strategem_, which is
quite another character.)

DOR'IMENE (3 _syl_.), daughter of Alcantor, beloved by Sganarelle (3
_syl_.) and Lycaste (2 _syl_.). She loved "le jeu, les visites, les
assembles, les cadeaux, et les promenades, en un mot toutes les choses
de plasir," and wished to marry to get free from the trammels of her
home. She says to Sganarelle (a man of 63), whom she promises to
marry, "Nous n'aurons jamais aucun demele ensemble; et je ne vous
contraindrai point dans vos actions, comme j'espere que vous ne me
contraindrez point dans les miennes."--Moliere, _Le Mariage Force_
(1664).

(She had been introduced previously as the wife of Sganarelle, in the
Comedy of _Le Cocu Iniaginaire_, 1660).

_Dorimene_, the marchioness, in the _Bourgeois Gentilhomme_, by
Moliere (1670).

DORIN'DA, the charming daughter of Lady Bountiful; in love with
Aimwell. She was sprightly and light-hearted, but good and virtuous
also.--George Farquhar, _The Beaux' Stratagem_ (1707).

_Dorinda_. The rustic maiden, slow and sweet in ungrammatical speech,
who helps plant corn by day, and makes pic