Queens (Four Daughters). Raymond Ber´enger, count of Provence, had four daughters, all of whom married kings; Margaret married Louis IX. of France; Eleanor married Henry III. of England; Sancha married Henry’s brother, Richard, king of the Romans; and Beatrice married Charles I. of Naples and Sicily.
Four daughters were there born
To Raymond Ber´enger, and every one
Became a queen.
Dantê, Paradise, vi. (1311).
Quentin (Black), groom of Sir John Ramorny.—Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).
Quentin Durward, a novel by Sir W. Scott (1823). A story of French history. The delineations of Louis XI., and Charles the Bold, of Burgundy, will stand comparison with any in the whole range of fiction or history.
Quern-Biter, the sword of Haco I. of Norway.
Quern-biter of Hacon the Good
Wherewith at a stroke he hewed
The millstone thro’ and thro’.
Longfellow.
Querno (Camillo), of Apulia, was introduced to Pope Leo X., as a buffoon, but was promoted to the laurel. This laureate was called the “Antichrist of Wit.”
Rome in her capitol saw Querno sit,
Throned on seven hills, the antichrist of wit.
Pope, The Dunciad, ii. (1728).
Querpo (Shrill), in Garth’s Dispensary, is meant for Dr. Howe.
To this design shrill Querpo did agree,
A zealous member of the faculty,
His sire’s pretended pious steps he treads,
And where the doctor fails, the saint succeeds.
Dispensary, iv. (1699).