This fable is told in the Arabian Nights ("The Barber's Fifth Brother, Alnas-char.") Lafontaine has put it into verse, Perrette et le Pot au Lait. Dodsley has the same, The Milk-maid and her Pail of Milk.
Echo, in classic poetry, is a female, and in English also; but in Ossian echo is called "the son of the rock."—Songs of Selma.
Eck'hart (The Trusty), a good servant, who perishes to save his master's children from the mountain fiends.—Louis Tieck.
(Carlyle has translated this tale into English.)
Eclecta, the "Elect" personified in The Purple Island, by Phineas Fletcher. She is the daughter of Intellect and Voleta (free-will), and ultimately becomes the bride of Jesus Christ, "the bridegroom" (canto xii., 1633).
But let the Kentish lad [Phineas Fletcher] ... that sung and crowned Eclecta's hymen with ten thousand flowers Of choicest praise ... be the sweet pipe.
Giles Fletcher, Christ's Triumph, etc, (1610).
École des Femmes, a comedy of Molière, the plot of which is borrowed from the novelletti of Ser Giovanni (1378.)
Ector (Sir), lord of many parts of England and Wales, and foster-father of Prince Arthur. His son Sir Key or Kay, was seneschal or steward of Arthur when he became king.—Sir T. Malory, History of Prince Arthur, i. 3 (1470.)
