his absence a storm at sea arose, a body was washed ashore, and Robert went down to plunder it.  Marian went to look for her father and prevent his robbing those washed ashore by the waves, when she saw in the dusk some one stab a wrecked body.  It was Black Norris, but she thought it was her father.  Robert being taken up Marian gave witness against him, and he was condemned to death.  Norris said he would save her father if she would marry him, and to this she consented; but on the wedding day Edward returned.  Norris was taken up for murder, and Marian was saved.

DAUGHTER WITH HER MURDERED FATHER’S HEAD.  Margaret Roper, daughter of Sir Thomas More, obtained privately the head of her father, which had been exposed for some days on London Bridge, and buried it in St. Dunstan’s Church, Canterbury (1835).  Tennyson alludes to this in the following lines:—­

  Morn broadened on the borders of the dark,
  Ere I saw her who clasped in her last trance
  Her murdered father’s head.

The head of the young earl of Derwent-water was exposed on Temple Bar in 1716.  His wife drove in a cart under the the arch, and a man, hired for the purpose, threw the young earl’s head into the cart, that it might be decently buried—­Sir Bernard Burke Mdlle. de Sombreuil, daughter of the Comte de Sombreuil, insisted on the sharing her father’s prison during the “Reign of Terror,” and in accompanying him to the guillotine.

DAUPHIN (Le Grand), Louis duc de Bourgoyne, eldest son of Louis XIV., for whom was published the Delphine Classics (1661-1711).

Dauphin (Le Petit), son of the “Grand Dauphin” (1682-1712).

DAURA, daughter of Armin.  She was betrothed to Armar, son of Armart, Erath a rival lover having been rejected by her.  One day, disguised as an old grey-beard, Erath told Daura that he was sent to conduct her to Armar, who was waiting for her.  Without suspicion she followed her guide, who took her to a rock in the midst of the sea, and there left her.  Her brother Arindal, returning from the chase, saw Erath on the shore, and bound him to an oak; then pushing off the boat, went to fetch back his sister.  At this crisis Armar came up, and discharged his arrow at Erath; but the arrow struck Arindal, and killed him.  “The boat broke in twain,” and Armar plunged into the sea to rescue his betrothed; but a “sudden blast from the hills struck him, and he sank to rise no more.”  Daura was rescued by her father, but she haunted the shore all night in a drenching rain.  Next day “her voice grew very feeble; it died away; and spent with grief, she expired.”  Ossian, Songs of Selma.

DAVENANT (Lord), a bigamist.  One wife was Marianne Dormer, whom he forsook in three months.  It was given out that he was dead, and Marianne in time married Lord Davenant’s son.  His other wife was Louisa Travers, who was engaged to Captain Dormer, but was told that the Captain was faithless and had married another.  When the villainy of his lordship could be no longer concealed he destroyed himself.