(This tale is based on the adventures of Lafitte, the notorious buccaneer.  Lafitte was pardoned by General Jackson for services rendered to the States in 1815, during the attack of the British on New Orleans).

COR’SAND, a magistrate at the examination of Dirk Hatteraick at Kippletringan.—­Sir W. Scott, Guy Mannering (time George II).

CORSICAN GENERAL (The), Napoleon I., who was born in Corsica (1769-1821).

COR’SINA, wife of the corsair who found Fairstar and Chery in the boat as it drifted on the sea.  Being made very rich by her foster-children, Corsina brought them up as princes.  Comtesse D’Aunoy, Fairy Tales (The Princess Fairstar, 1682).

CORTE’JO, a cavaliere servente, who as Byron says in Beppo: 

  Coach, servants, gondola, must go to call,
  And carries fan and tippet, gloves and shawl.

  Was it not for this that no cortejo ere
  I yet have chosen from the youth of Sev’ille?

Byron, Don Juan, i. 148 (1819).

CORVI’NO (Signior), a Venetian merchant, duped by Mosca into believing that he is Vol’pone’s heir.—­Ben Jonson, Volpone or the Fox (1605).

CORYATE’S CRUDITIES, a book of travels by Thomas Coryate, who called himself the “Odcombian Legstretcher.”  He was the son of the rector of Odcombe (1577—­1617).

CORYCIAN NYMPHS (The), the Muses, so called from the cave of Corycia on Lyeorca, one of the two chief summits of Mount Parnassus, in Greece.

COR’YDON, a common name for a shepherd.  It occurs in the Idylls of Theocritos; the Eclogues of Virgil; The Cantata, v., of Hughes, etc.

Cor’ydon, the shepherd who languished for the fair Pastorella (canto 9).  Sir Calidore, the successful rival, treated him most courteously, and when he married the fair shepherdess, gave Corydon both flocks and herds to mitigate his disappointment (canto 11).—­Spenser, Faery Queen, vi. (1596).

Cor’ydon, the shoemaker, a citizen.—­Sir W. Scott, Count Robert of Paris (time, Rufus).

CORYPHAEUS OF GERMAN LITERATURE (The), Goethe.

The Polish poet called upon ... the great Corypheeus of German literature.—­W.  R. Morfell, Notes and Queries, April 27, 1878.

CORYPHE’US (4 syl.), a model man or leader, from the Koruphaios or leader of the chorus in the Greek drama.  Aristarchos is called The Corypheus of Grammarians.

COSETTE.  Illegitimate child of Fantine, a Parisian grisette.  She puts the baby into the care of peasants who neglect and maltreat the little creature.  She is rescued by the ex-convict Jean Valjean, who nurtures her tenderly and marries her to a respectable man.—­Victor Hugo, Les Miserables.

COSME (St.), patron of surgeons, born in Arabia.  He practised medicine in Cilicia with his brother St. Damien, and both suffered martyrdom under Diocletian in 303 or 310.  Their fete day is December 27.  In the twelfth century there was a medical society called Saint Cosme.