DOLLY OF THE CHOP-HOUSE (Queen’s Head Passage, Paternoster Row and Newgate Street, London.) Her celebrity arose from the excellency of her provisions, attendance, accommodation, and service.  The name is that of the old cook of the establishment.

  The broth reviving, and the bread was fair,
  The small beer grateful and as pepper strong,
  The beaf-steaks tender, and the pot-herbs young.

DOLLY TRULL.  Captain Macheath says she was “so taken up with stealing hearts, she left herself no time to steal anything else.”—­Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, ii.  I. (1727).

DOLLY VARDEN, daughter of Gabriel Varden, locksmith.  She was loved to distraction by Joe Willet, Hugh of the Maypole inn, and Simon Tappertit.  Dolly dressed in the Watteau style, and was lively, pretty, and bewitching.—­C.  Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1841).

DOL’ON, “a man of subtle wit and wicked mind,” father of Guizor (groom of Pollente the Saracen, lord of “Parlous Bridge").  Sir Ar’tegal, with scant ceremony, knocks the life out of Guizor, for demanding of him “passage-penny” for crossing the bridge.  Soon afterwards, Brit’omart and Talus rest in Dolon’s castle for the night, and Dolon, mistaking Britomart for Sir Artegal, sets upon her in the middle of the night, but is overmastered.  He now runs with his two surviving sons to the bridge, to prevent the passage of Britomart and Talus; but Britomart runs one of them through with her spear, and knocks the other into the river.—­Spenser Faery Queen v. 6 (1596).

DOL’ON AND ULYSSES.  Dolon undertook to enter the Greek camp and bring word back to Hector an exact account of everything.  Accordingly he put on a wolf’s skin and prowled about the camp on all fours.  Ulysses saw through the disguise, and said to Diomed, “Yonder man is from the host ... we’ll let him pass a few paces, and then pounce on him unexpectedly.”  They soon caught the fellow, and having “pumped” out of him all about the Trojan plans, and the arrival of Rhesus, Diomed smote him with his falchion on the mid-neck and slew him.  This is the subject of bk. x. of the Iliad and therefore this book is called “Dolonia” ("the deeds of Dolon” or “Dolophon’ia”, “Dolon’s murder").

  Full of cunning, like Ulysses’ whistle
  When he allured poor Dolon.

  Byron, Don Juan, xiii. 105 (1824).

DOLOPA’TOS, the Sicilian king, who placed his son Lucien under the charge of “seven wise masters.”  When grown to man’s estate, Lucien’s step-mother made improper advances to him, which he repulsed, and she accused him to the king of insulting her.  By astrology the prince discovered that if he could tide over seven days his life would be saved; so the wise masters amused the king with seven tales, and the king relented.  The prince himself then told a tale which embodied his own history; the eyes of the king were opened, and the queen was condemned to death.—­Sandabar’s Parables (French version).