My Father was coming into the Chamber, and had like to have taken Cinthio with me, when, to conceal him, I put him into your Closet, not knowing of Charmante's being there, and which, in the dark, he took for a Gallant of mine; had not my Father's Presence hinder'd, I believe there had been Murder committed; however they both escap'd unknown.

Dryden, prologue to The Prophetess (1690), speaks of the gallants in the theatre indulging freely in

They are gallant to their females; never engage in combat with the weaker sex; fight and kill each other when angry; love good eating, and are cannibalisticwhich last habit they may have learned from their ancestors of the Feejee Islands.

Satan's she Advocatepeace, I say;so, you look as innocently now, as a little Devil of two years old, I'll warrant;come, come, look me full in the facethus,turn your nose just to minesonow tell me whose damnable Plot this was, to send your Gallant with his Eloquence, Querks and Conundrums, to tutor me into better manners? Jul.

I have learned to-night that the women of Virginia are no less gallant than the men.

Both were full of talk and questions concerning Dick Prescott and Greg Holmes, at West Point, for which reason Dan had strolled home with Miss Bentley without any other thought, on the midshipman's part, than playing substitute gallant for his chum, Cadet Richard Prescott, U.S. Military Academy.

So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar? SIR WALTER SCOTT.

"Girls never come to good who let their eyes go walking through the earth, and have the names of all the wild gallants on their tongues.

"In my judgment," adds the ambassador from Venice, Zachary Contarini, who had come to Paris in May, 1492, "I should hold that, body and mind, he is not worth much; however, they all sing his praises in Paris as a right lusty gallant at playing of tennis, and at hunting, and at jousting, exercises to the which, in season and out of season, he doth devote a great deal of time."

On one question she was soon spared all suspense; for, after the Miss Musgroves had returned and finished their visit at the Cottage, she had this spontaneous information from Mary: "Captain Wentworth is not very gallant by you, Anne, though he was so attentive to me.

THE GALLANT ROOSTER The dictionary makers derive the word gallant from all sorts of roots in divers languages, meaning gay, brave, festive, proud, lascivious, and so on.

"General Howe is a gallant commander, There are others as gallant as he.

One day, he appeared arrayed from head to foot in yellow Nankin, a color always considered a special abomination in Pekin, but which was nevertheless instantly adopted by all the gallants about town,a proceeding which caused so much scandal that an imperial edict had to be issued, forbidding the practice in future.

"Basili also was extremely gallant among his own persuasion, and had the greatest veneration for the Church, mixed with the highest contempt of Churchmen, whom he cuffed upon occasion in a most heterodox manner.

But Verty was growing gallant under Mr. Roundjacket's teaching.

"Our business is over," he added, to the nobles and gallants around him; "so we may to our barges.