First my donet, and then my accedence.

S. Hawes, The Pastime of Plesure, v. (time Henry VII.).

DONI’CA, only child of the lord of Ar’kinlow (an elderly man).  Young Eb’erhard loved her, and the Finnish maiden was betrothed to him.  Walking one evening by the lake, Donica heard the sound of the death-spectre, and fell lifeless in the arms of her lover.  Presently the dead maiden received a supernatural vitality, but her cheeks were wan, her lips livid, her eyes lustreless, and her lap-dog howled when it saw her.  Eberhard still resolved to marry her, and to church they went; but when he took Donica’s hand into his own it was cold and clammy, the demon fled from her, and the body dropped a corpse at the feet of the bridegroom.—­R.  Southey, Donica (a Finnish ballad).

DONNERHU’GEL (Rudolph), one of the Swiss deputies to Charles “the Bold,” duke of Burgundy.  He is cousin of the sons of Arnold Biederman the landamman of Unterwalden (alias Count Arnold of Geierstein).

Theodore Donnerhugel, uncle of Rudolph.  He was page to the former Baron of Arnheim [Arnhime].—­Sir W. Scott, Anne of Geierstein (time, Edward IV.).

DO’NY, Florimel’s dwarf.—­Spenser, Faery Queen, iii. 5 and iv. 2 (1590, 1596).

DONZEL DEL FE’BO (El), the knight of the sun, a Spanish romance in The Mirror of Knighthood.  He was “most excellently fair,” and a “great wanderer;” hence he is alluded to as “that wandering knight so fair.”

DOO’LIN OF MAYENCE (2 syl.), the hero and title of an old French romance of chivalry.  He was ancestor of Ogier the Dane.  His sword was called Merveilleuse ("wonderful").

DOOMSDAY SEDGWICK, William Sedgwick, a fanatical “prophet” during the Commonwealth.  He pretended that the time of doomsday had been revealed to him in a vision; and, going into the garden of Sir Francis Bussell, he denounced a party of gentlemen playing at bowls, and bade them prepare for the day of doom, which was at hand.

DOORM, an earl who tried to make Enid his handmaid, and “smote her on the cheek” because she would not welcome him.  Whereupon her husband, Count Geraint, started up and slew the “russet-bearded earl.”—­Tennyson, Idylls of the King ("Enid.").

DOOR-OPENER (The), Crates, the Theban; so called because he used to go round Athens early of a morning and rebuke the people for their late rising.

DORA [SPENLOW], a pretty, warmhearted little doll of a woman, with no practical views of the duties of life or the value of money.  She was the “child-wife” of David Copperfield, and loved to sit by him and hold his pens while he wrote.  She died, and David then married Agnes Wickfield.  Dora’s great pet was a dog called “Jip,” which died at the same time as its mistress.—­C.  Dickens, David Copperfield (1849).

DORA’DO (El), a land of exhaustless wealth; a golden illusion.  Orella’na, lieutenant of Pizarro, asserted that he had discovered a “gold country” between the Orino’co and the Am’azon, in South America.  Sir Walter Raleigh twice visited Gruia’na as the spot indicated, and published highly colored accounts of its enormous wealth.