DORALI’CE (4 syl.) a lady beloved by Rodomont, but who married Mandricardo.—­Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).

DOR’ALIS, the lady-love of Rodomont, king of Sarza or Algiers.  She eloped with Mandricardo, king of Tartary.—­Bojardo, Orlando Innamorato (1495), and Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).

DORANTE (2 syl.), a name introduced into three of Moliere’s comedies.  In Les Facheux he is a courtier devoted to the chase (1661).  In La Critique de l’ecole des Femmes he is a chevalier (1602).  In Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme he is a count in love with the marchioness Doremene (1670).

DARAS’TUS AND FAUNIA, the hero and heroine of a popular romance by Robert Greene, published in 1588, under the title of Pandosto and the Triumph of Time.  On this “history” Shakespeare founded his Winter’s Tale.

DORAX, the assumed name of Don Alonzo of Alcazar, when he deserted Sebastian, king of Portugal, turned renegade, and joined the emperor of Barbary.  The cause of his desertion was that Sebastian gave to Henri’quez the lady betrothed to Alonzo.  Her name was Violante (4 syl.) The quarrel between Sebastian and Dorax is a masterly copy of the quarrel and reconciliation between Brutus and Cassius in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

Sebastian says to Dorax, “Confess, proud spirit, that better he [Henriquez] deserved my love than thou.”  To this Dorax replies: 

  I must grant,
  Yes, I must grant, but with a swelling soul,
  Henriquez had your love with more desert;
  For you he fought and died; I fought against you.

Drayton, Don Sebastian (1690).

DORCAS, servant to Squire Ingoldsby.—­Sir W. Scott, Redgauntlet (time, George III.).

Dorcas, an old domestic at Cumnor Place.—­Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth).

DORIA D’ISTRIA, a pseudonym of the Princess Koltzoff-Massalsky, a Wallachian authoress (1829-).

Arthur Donnithorn:  Young Squire who seduces Hetty Sorrel in George Eliot’s novel of Adam Bede.

DORICOURT, the fiance of Letitia Hardy.  A man of the world and the rage of the London season, he is, however, both a gentleman and a man of honor.  He had made the “grand tour,” and considered English beauties insipid.—­Mrs. Cowley, The Belle’s Stratagem, (1780).

  Montague Talbot [1778-1831]. 
  He reigns o’er comedy supreme.. 
  None show for light and airy sport,
  So exquisite a Doricourt.

Crofton Croaker.

DO’RIDON, a beautiful swain, nature’s “chiefest work,” more beautiful than Narcissus, Ganymede, or Adonis.—­Wm. Browne, Britannia’s Pastorals (1613).

DO’RIGEN, a lady of high family, who married Arvir’agus out of pity for his love and meekness.  Aurelius sought to entice her away, but she said she would never listen to his suit till on the British coast “there n’is no stone y-seen.”  Aurelius by magic caused all the stones to disappear, and when Dorigen went and said that her husband insisted on her keeping her word, Aurelius, seeing her dejection, replied, he would sooner die than injure so true a wife and noble a gentleman.—­Chaucer, Canterbury Tales ("The Franklin’s Tale,” 1388).