banker, who adores his son Harry. He tries
to be stern with him when he sees him going the road to ruin, but is
melted by a kind word.

Joseph Mnnden [1758-1832] was the original representative of "Old
Dornton" and a host of other characters.--_Memoir_ (1832.)

_Harry Dornton_, son of the above. A noble-hearted fellow, spoilt by
over-indulgence. He becomes a regular rake, loses money at Newmarket,
and goes post-speed the road to ruin, led on by Jack Milford. So great
is his extravagance, that his father becomes a bankrupt; but Sulky
(his partner in the bank) comes to the rescue. Harry marries Sophia
Freelove, and both father and son are saved from ruin.--Holcroft, _The
Road to Euin_ (1792).

DOROTHE'A, of Andalusi'a, daughter of Cleonardo (an opulent vassal of
the Duke Ricardo). She was married to Don Fernando, the duke's
younger son, who deserted her for Lucinda (the daughter of an opulent
gentlemen), engaged to Cardenio, her equal in rank and fortune. When
the wedding day arrived, Lucinda fell into a swoon, a letter informed
the bridegroom that she was already married to Cardenio, and next day
she took refuge in a convent. Dorothea also left her home, dressed in
boy's clothes, and concealed herself in the Sierra Morena or Brown
Mountain. Now, it so happened that Dorothea, Cardenio, and Don
Quixote's party happened to be staying at the Crescent inn, and Don
Fernando, who had abducted Lucinda from the convent, halted at the
same place. Here he found his wife Dorothea, and Lucinda her husband
Cardenio. All these misfortunes thus came to an end, and the parties
mated with their respective spouses.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. iv.
(1605).

_Dorothe'a_, sister of Mons. Thomas.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _Mons.
Thomas_ (1619).

_Dorothe'a_, the "virgin martyr," attended by Angelo, an angel in the
semblance of a page, first presented to Dorothea as a beggar-boy, to
whom she gave alms.--Philip Massinger, _The Virgin Martyr_ (1622).

_Dorothe'a_, the heroine of Goethe's poem entitled _Hermann and
Dorothea_ (1797).

DOR'OTHEUS (3 _syl_.), the man who spent all his life in endeavoring
to elucidate the meaning of one single word in Homer.

DOR'OTHY _(Old)_, the housekeeper of Simon Glover and his daughter
"the fair maid of Perth."--Sir. W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time,
Henry IV.).

_Dor'othy_, charwoman of Old Trapbois the miser and his daughter
Martha.--Sir W. Scott, _Fortunes of Nigel_ (time, James I.).

DORO