The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Wr - Washington Irving [255]
As farre as dross doth lead.
Churchyard [Irving’s note]. English writer Thomas Churchyard (c.1520-1604).
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Quotation from Shakespeare’s The First Part of Henry the Fourth (act 3, scene 3).
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The Golden Apple (French).
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Meal served to guests at a fixed time and price.
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Meerschaum (literally, “seafoam” in French); a claylike mineral used to make tobacco pipes.
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The erudite reader, well versed in good-for-nothing lore, will perceive that the above Tale must have been suggested to the old Swiss by a little French anecdote, a circumstance said to have taken place at Paris [Irving’s note].
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From The History of Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, and Sir Gray-Steel (1687), an early metrical romance; Irving’s source is unidentified.
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i. e., CAT’S-ELBOW. The name of a family of those parts very powerful in former times. The appellation, we are told, was given in compliment to a peerless dame of the family, celebrated for her fine arm [Irving’s note].
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Das Heldenbuch, or Book of Heroes, a collection of thirteenth-century German metrical romances.
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Or Minnesingers; medieval German troubadours.
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Chaperone, or governess.
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Attention to ceremony or formality.
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Wine from the Rhine region of Germany.
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that is, old, tainted wine.
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One of the largest wine vats in the world, the Heidelburg Tun, found in the castle at Heidelberg, Germany, held approximately 58,000 gallons.
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Revel and riot.
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Famous German wine.
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“Lenore,” a ballad by German poet Gottfried August Burger (1747-1794), is one of Irving’s sources for “The Spectre Bridegroom.”
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Version of a speech given in 1774 by Native American Mingo chief Logan after his family was massacred by white settlers; various versions of Logan’s speech—often published under the title “Logan’s Lament”—were written by white Americans during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to exemplify the noble sentiments of the “savage.”
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The American government has been indefatigable in its exertions to ameliorate the situation of the Indians, and to introduce among them the arts of civilization, and civil and religious knowledge. To protect them from the frauds of the white traders, no purchase of land from them by individuals is permitted; nor is any person allowed to receive lands from them as a present, without the express sanction of government. These precautions are strictly enforced [Irving’s note].
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Thomas Morton (c.1579-1647), who established the colony at Merry Mount (now Quincy, Massachusetts); Irving quotes from his New English Canaan (book 1).
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Morton’s New English Canaan (book 1, “Of a Vision and a Battle”).
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Souls.
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See Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice (act 3, scene 3).
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Abusive language.
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Reference to A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England (1677), by William Hubbard.
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Backless chairs with curved legs, reserved for Roman civil magistrates.
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These words are attributed to Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee shaman and brother of Chief Tecumseh.
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From Gertrude of Wyoming (1809), by British poet Thomas Campbell (part 1, stanza 23, lines 4-9).
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While correcting the proof sheets of this article, the author is informed that a celebrated English poet has nearly finished an heroic poem on the story of Philip of Pokanoket [Irving’s note]. The poet Irving refers to is Robert Southey (1774-1843), English poet laureate, who in 1837 published “Oliver Newman, A New England Tale,” which is set in the events surrounding King Philip’s War.
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Now Bristol, Rhode Island [Irving’s note].
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The Rev. Increase Mather’s History [Irving’s note]. This and subsequent passages are taken from A Brief History of the War with the Indians (1676), by American Puritan clergyman Increase Mather.
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Omnipresence.
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MS. of the Rev. W. Ruggles [Irving’s note]. Possibly the Rev. Thomas Ruggles, Jr., who wrote a history of Guilford, Connecticut, in 1763.
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Shell beads used by some Native Americans as money.
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See the discussion that begins on page xxiii of the Introduction.
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From The Castle of Indolence