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as Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, xi. (1633). ENDELL (_Martha_), a poor fallen girl, to whom Emily goes when Steerforth deserts her. She emigrates with Dan'el Pegot'ty, and marries a young farmer in Australia.--C. Dickens, _David Copperfield_ (1849). ENDIGA, in _Charles XII_., by J.R. Planche (1826). ENDLESS, the rascally lawyer in _No Song No Supper_, by P. Hoare (1754-1834). ENDYM'ION, a noted astronomer who, from Mount Latmus, in Caria, discovered the course of the moon. Hence it is fabled that the moon sleeps with Endymion. Strictly speaking, Endymion is the setting sun. So, Latmus by the wise Endymion is renowned; That hill on whose high top he was the first that found Pale Phoebe's wandering course; so skillful in her sphere, As some stick not to say that he enjoyed her there. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, vi. (1612). _To sleep like Endymion_, to sleep long and soundly. Endymion requested of Jove permission to sleep as long as felt inclined. Hence the proverb, _Endymionis somnum dormire_. Jean Ogier de Gombaud wrote in French a romance or prose poem called _Endymion_ (1624), and one of the best paintings of A.L. Girodet is "Endymion." Cowley, referring to Gombaud's romance, says: While there is a people or a sun, Endymion's story with the moon shall run. John Keats, in 1818, published his _Endymion_ (a poetic romance), and the criticism of the _Quarterly Review_ was falsely said to have caused his death. _Endymion._ So Wm. Browne calls Sir Walter Raleigh, who was for a time in disgrace with Queen Elizabeth, whom he calls "Cynthia." The first note that I heard I soon was wonne To think the sighes of fair Endymion, The subject of whose mournful heavy lay, Was his declining with faire Cynthia. _Brittannia's Pastorals_, iv. (1613). ENFANTS DE DIEU, the Camisards. The royal troops outnumbered the _Enfants de Dieu_, and a not inglorious flight took place.--Ed. Gilliat, _Asylum Christi_, iii. ENFIELD (_Mrs._), the keeper of a house of intrigue, or "gentleman's magazine" of frail beauties.--Holcroft, _The Deserted Daughter_ (1785). ENGADDI (_Theodorick, hermit of_), an enthusiast. He was Aberick of Mortemar, an exiled noble.--Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.). _Engaddi_, one of the towns of Judah, forty miles from Jerusalem, famous for its palm trees. Anchorites beneath Engaddi's palms, Pacing the Dead Sea beach. Longfellow, _Sand of the De
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