COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS, a novel by Sir W. Scott, after the wreck of his fortune and repeated strokes of paralysis (1831).  The critic can afford to be indulgent, and those who read this story must remember that the sun of the great wizard was hastening to its set.  The time of the novel is the reign of Rufus.  COUNTRY (Father of his).  Cicero was so called by the Roman senate (B.C. 106-43).  Julius Caesar was so called after quelling the insurrection in Spain (B.C. 100-43).  Augustus Caesar was called Pater atque Princeps (B.C. 63, 31-14).  Cosmo de Medici (1389-1464).  Washington, defender and paternal counsellor of the American States (1732-1799).  Andrea Dorea is so called on the base of his statue in Genoa (1468-1560).  Andronlcus Palaeologus II. assumed the title (1260-1332). (See 1 Chron. iv. 14).

COUNTRY GIRL (The), a comedy by Garrick, altered from Wycherly.  The “country girl” is Peggy Thrift, the orphan daughter of Sir Thomas Thrift, and ward of Moody, who brings her up in the country in perfect seclusion.  When Moody is 50 and Peggy is 19, he wants to marry her, but she outwits him and marries Bellville, a young man of suitable age and position.

COUNTRY WIFE (The), a comedy by William Wycherly (1675).

  Pope was proud to receive notice from the
  author of The Country Wife.—­R.  Chambers,
  English Literature, i. 393.

COUPEE, the dancing-master, who says “if it were not for dancing-masters, men might as well walk on their heads as heels.”  He courts Lucy by promising to teach her dancing.—­Fielding, The Virgin Unmasked.

COURTAIN, one of the swords of Ogier the Dane, made by Munifican.  His other sword was Sauvagine.

  But Ogier gazed upon it [the sea] doubtfully
  One Moment, and then, sheathing, Courtain, said,
  “What tales are these?”
  W. Morris, The Earthly Paradise ("August").

COURTALL, a fop and consummate libertine, for ever boasting of his love-conquests over ladies of the haut monde.  He tries to corrupt Lady Frances Touchwood, but is foiled by Saville.—­Mrs. Cowley, The Belle’s Stratagem (1780).

COURTLY (Sir Charles), a young libertine, who abducted the beautiful wife of Farmer Cornflower.—­Dibdin, The Farmer’s Wife (1780).

COUSIN COPELAND, a little old bachelor, courtly and quaint, who lives in “Old Gardiston,” the home of his ancestors “befo’ de wah.”  He has but one suit of clothes, so he dresses for dinner by donning a ruffled shirt and a flower in his buttonhole.  His work is among “documents,” his life in the past; without murmur at poverty or change he keeps up the even routine of life until one evening, trying to elevate his gentle little voice as he reads to his niece, so as to be heard above the rain and wind, it fails.

“Four days afterward he died, gentle and placid to the last.  He was an old man, although no one had ever thought so.”—­Constance Fennimore Woolson, Southern Sketches, (1880).

COUSIN MICHEL or MICHAEL, the nickname of a German, as John Bull is of an Englishman, Brother Jonathan of an American, Colin Tampon a Swiss, John Chinaman a Chinese, etc.