CON’RAD (Lord), the corsair, afterwards called Lara.  A proud, ascetic but successful pirate.  Hearing that the Sultan, Seyd [Seed], was about to attack the pirates, he entered the palace in the disguise of a dervise, but being found out was seized and imprisoned.  He was released by Gulnare (2 syl.), the sultan’s favorite concubine, and fled with her to the Pirates’ Isle, but finding Medo’ra dead, he left the island with Gulnare, returned to his native land, headed a rebellion, and was shot.—­Lord Byron, The Corsair, continued in Lara (1814).  CONRAD DRYFOOS, the son of a rich man, the backer and virtual proprietor of Every Other Week, in W. D. Howells’s novel, A Hazard of New Fortunes.

“He’s got a good head and he wanted to study for the ministry when they were all living together out on the farm ...  You know they used to think that any sort of stuff was good enough to make a preacher out of; but they wanted the good timber for business, and so the old man wouldn’t let him.”

Foiled in this purpose, Conrad becomes a reformer and receives a mortal wound in the attempt to protect an old Socialist against the police, who are trying to quell a mob of strikers (1890).

CON’RADE (2 syl.), a follower of Don John (bastard brother of Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon).—­Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1600).

Conrade (2 syl.), Marquis of Montserrat, who, with the grand-master of the Templars, conspired against Richard Coeur de Lion.  He was unhorsed in combat, and murdered in his tent by the Templar.—­Sir W. Scott, The Talisman (time, Richard I.).

CONSTANCE, mother of Prince Arthur, and widow of Geoffrey Plantagenet.—­Shakespeare, King John (1598).

Mrs. Bartley’s “Lady Macbeth,” “Constance,” and “Queen Katherine” [Henry VIII.], were powerful embodiments, and I question if they have ever since been so finely portrayed (1785-1850).—­J.  Adolphus, Recollections.

Constance, daughter of Sir William Fondlove, and courted by Wildrake, a country squire, fond of field sports.  “Her beauty rich, richer her grace, her mind yet richer still, though richest all.”  She was “the mould express of woman, stature, feature, body, limb;” she danced well, sang well, harped well.  Wildrake was her childhood’s playmate, and became her husband.—­S.  Knowles, The Love Chase (1837).

Constance, daughter of Bertulphe, provost of Bruges, and bride of Bouchard, a knight of Flanders.  She had “beauty to shame young love’s most fervent dream, virtue to form a saint, with just enough of earth to keep her woman.”  By an absurd law of Charles “the Good,” earl of Flanders, made in 1127, this young lady, brought up in the lap of luxury, was reduced to serfdom, because her grandfather was a serf; her aristocratic husband was also a serf because he married her (a serf).  She went mad at the reverse of fortune, and died.—­S.  Knowles, The Provost of Bruges (1836).