Who watches from his sea-blown deck
The ice-bergs in the sun. (1860.)
Amyn'tas, in Colin Clout's Come Home Again, by Spenser, is Ferdinando earl of Derby, who died 1594.
Amyntas, flower of shepherd's pride forlorn.
He, whilst he lived, was the noblest swain
That ever pipèd on an oaten quill.
Spenser, Colin Clout's Come Home Again (1591).
Amyn'tor. (See AMINTOR.)
A'mys and Amy'lion, the Damon and Pythias of mediaeval romance.—See Ellis's Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances.
Amytis, the Median queen of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. Beautiful, passionate, and conscienceless, she condemns an innocent rival to the worst of fates, without a pang of conscience, and dies a violent death at the hands of one who was once her lover.