ALL-FAIR, a princess, who was saved from the two lions (which guarded the Desert Fairy) by the Yellow Dwarf, on condition that she would become his wife.  On her return home she hoped to evade this promise by marrying the brave king of the Gold Mines, but on the wedding day Yellow Dwarf carried her off on a Spanish cat, and confined her in Steel Castle.  Here Gold Mine came to her rescue with a magic sword, but in his joy at finding her, he dropped his sword, and was stabbed to the heart with it by Yellow Dwarf.  All-Fair, falling on the body of her lover, died of a broken heart.  The syren changed the dead lovers into two palm trees.—­Comtesse D’Aunoy, Fairy Tales ("The Yellow Dwarf,” 1682).  ALLIN-A-DALE or ALLEN-A-DALE, of Nottinghamshire, was to be married to a lady who returned his love, but her parents compelled her to forego young Allin for an old knight of wealth.  Allin told his tale to Robin Hood, and the bold forester, in the disguise of a harper, went to the church where the wedding ceremony was to take place.  When the wedding party stepped in, Robin Hood exclaimed, “This is no fit match; the bride shall be married only to the man of her choice.”  Then, sounding his horn, Allin-a-Dale with four and twenty bowmen entered the church.  The bishop refused to marry the woman to Allin till the banns had been asked three times, whereupon Robin pulled off the bishop’s gown, and invested Little John in it, who asked the banns seven times, and performed the ceremony.—­Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale (a ballad).

ALL’IT.  Captain of Nebuchadrezzar’s guards in The Master of the Magicians, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Herbert D. Ward.  He is flattered and content to be the queen’s favorite until he meets Lalitha, a Jewish damsel.  He braves death to save her from runaway horses attached to a chariot, is captivated by her beauty, and forgets his royal mistress in an honorable love (1890).

ALLNUT (Noll), landlord of the Swan, Lambythe Ferry (1625).

Grace Allnut, his wife.

Oliver Allnut, the landlord’s son.—­Sterling, John Felton (1852).

ALLWORTH (Lady), stepmother to Tom Allworth.  Sir Giles Overreach thought she would marry his nephew Wellborn, but she married lord Lovel.

Tom Allworth, stepson of lady Allworth, in love with Margaret Overreach, whom he marries.—­Massinger, A New Way to pay Old Debts (1625).

ALL’WORTHY, in Fielding’s Tom Jones, a man of sturdy rectitude, large charity, infinite modesty, independent spirit, and untiring philanthropy, with an utter disregard of money or fame.  Fielding’s friend, Ralph Allen, was the academy figure of this character.

ALMA (the human soul) queen of a Castle, which for seven years was beset by a rabble rout.  Arthur and sir Guyon were conducted by Alma over this castle, which though not named is intended to represent the human body.—­Spenser, The Faerie Queene, ii. 9 (1590).