Sweet in manners, fair in favor,
  Mild in temper, fierce in fight. 
  Lewis.

DUR’DEN (Dame), a notable country gentlewoman, who kept five men-servants “to use the spade and flail,” and five women-servants “to carry the milken-pail.”  The five men loved the five maids.  Their names were: 

  Moll and Bet, and Doll and Kate, and Dorothy Draggletail;
  John and Dick, and Joe and Jack, and Humphrey with his flail.
  A Well-known Glee.

(In Bleak House, by C. Dickens, Esther Summerson is playfully called “Dame Durden.”)

DURETETE (Captain), a rather heavy gentleman who takes lessons in gallantry from his friend, young Mirabel.  Very bashful with ladies, and for ever sparring with Bisarre, who teazes him unmercifully [Dure-tait, Be-zar’].—­G.  Farquhar, The Inconstant (1702).

DURINDA’NA, Orlando’s sword, given him by his cousin Malagi’gi.  This sword and the horn Olifant were buried at the feet of the hero.

[Illustration] Charlemagne’s sword “Joyeuse” was also buried with him, and “Tizo’na” was buried with the Cid.

DUROTI’GES (4. syl.).  Below the Hedui (those of Somersetshire) came the Durotiges, sometimes called Mor’ini.  Their capital was Du’rinum (Dorchester), and their territory extended to Vindel’ia (Portland Isle).—­Richard of Cireneestre, Ancient State of Britain, vi. 15.

The Durotiges on the Dorsetian sand.

Drayton, Polyolbion, xvi. (1613).

DURWARD (Quentin), hero and title of a novel by Sir W. Scott.  Quentin Durward is the nephew of Ludovic Lesly (surnamed LeBalafre).  He enrolls himself in the Scottish guard, a company of archers in the pay of Louis XI., at Plessis les Tours, and saves the king in a boar-hunt.  When Leigeis is assaulted by insurgents, Quentin Durward and the Countess Isabelle de Croye escape on horseback.  The countess publicly refuses to marry the duc d’Orleans, and ultimately marries the young Scotchman.

DUSRONNAL, one of the two steeds of Cuthullin, general of the Irish tribes.  The other was “Sulin-Sifadda” (q. v.).

Before the left side of the car is seen the snorting horse.  The thin-maned, high-headed, strong-hoofed, fleet, bounding son of the hill.  His name Dusronnal, among the stormy sons of the sword ... the [two] steeds like wreaths of mist fly over the vales.  The wildness of deer is in their course, the strength of eagles descending on the prey.—­Ossian, Fingal i.

DUTCH SCHOOL of painting, noted for its exactness of detail and truthfullness to life:—­For Portraits:  Rembrandt, Bol, Flinck, Hals, and Vanderhelst.

For Conversation pieces:  Gerhard Douw, Terburg, Metzu, Mieris, and Netscher.

For low life:  Ostade Brower and Jan Steen.

For landscapes:  Ruysdael, Hobbema, Cuyp, Vanderneer (moonlight scenes), Berchem and A. Both.