(canto 1).  Sir Calidore falls in love with Pastorella, a shepherdess, dresses like a shepherd, and assists his lady-love in keeping sheep.  Pastorella being taken captive by brigands, sir Calidore rescues her, and leaves her at Belgard Castle to be taken care of, while he goes in quest of the Blatant Beast.  He finds the monster after a time, by the havoc it had made with religious houses, and after an obstinate fight succeeds in muzzling it, and dragging it in chains after him, but it got loose again, as it did before (canto 12).—­Spenser, Faery Queen, vi. (1596).

  Sir Gawain was the “Calidore” of the Round
  Table.—­Southey.

[Illustration] “Pastorella” is Frances Walsingham (daughter of sir Francis), whom sir Philip Sidney married.  After the death of sir Philip she married the earl of Essex.  The “Blatant Beast” is what we now call “Mrs. Grundy.”

CALIGORANT, an Egyptian giant and cannibal, who used to entrap travellers with an invisible net.  It was the very same net that Vulcan made to catch Mars and Venus with.  Mercury stole it for the purpose of entrapping Chloris, and left it in the temple of Anubis, whence it was stolen by Caligorant.  One day Astolpho, by a blast of his magic horn, so frightened the giant that he got entangled in his own net, and being made captive was despoiled of it.—­Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).

CALINO, a famous French utterer of bulls.

CALIPOLIS, in The Battle of Alcazar, a drama by George Peele (1582).  Pistol says to Mistress Quickly: 

  “Then feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis.”—­
  Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV. act ii. sc 4 (1598).

CALIS (The princess), sister of Astorax, king of Paphos, in love with Polydore, brother of general Memnon, but loved greatly by Siphax.—­Beaumont and Fletcher, The Mad Lover (1617).

CALISTA, the fierce and haughty daughter of Sciolto (3 syl.), a proud Genoese nobleman.  She yielded to the seduction of Lothario, but engaged to marry Altamont, a young lord who loved her dearly.  On the wedding-day a letter was picked up which proved her guilt, and she was subsequently seen by Altamont conversing with Lothario.  A duel ensued, in which Lothario fell; in a street row Sciolto received his death-wound, and Calista stabbed herself.  The character of “Calista” was one of the parts of Mrs. Siddons, and also of Miss Brunton.—­N.  Rowe, The Fair Penitent (1703).

Richardson has given a purity and sanctity to the sorrows of his “Clarissa” which leave “Calista” immeasurably behind.—­R.  Chambers, English Literature, i. 590.

Twelve years after Norris’s death, Mrs. Barry was acting the character of “Calista.”  In the last act, where “Calista” lays her hand upon a skull, she [Mrs. Barry] was suddenly seized with a shuddering, and fainted.  Next day she asked whence the skull had been obtained, and was told it was “the skull of Mr. Norris, an actor.”  This Norris was her former husband, and so great was the shock that she died within six weeks.—­Oxberry.