The countess of Nithsdale effected the escape of her husband from the Tower, in 1715, by changing clothes with him.
The Countess de Lavalette, in 1815, liberated her husband, under sentence of death, in the same way; but the terror she suffered so affected her nervous system that she lost her senses, and never afterwards recovered them.
San´chez II. of Castile, was killed at the battle of Zamo´ra, 1065.
It was when brave King Sanchez
Was before Zamora slain.
Longfellow, The Challenge.
Sanchi´ca, eldest daughter of Sancho and Teresa Panza.—Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15)
Sancho (Don), a rich old beau, uncle to Victoria. “He affects the misdemeanors of a youth, hides his baldness with amber locks, and complains of toothache, to make people believe that his teeth are not false ones.” Don Sancho “loves in the style of Roderigo I.”—Mrs. Cowley, A Bold Stroke for a Husband (1782).
Sancho Panza, the squire of Don Quixote. A short, pot-bellied peasant, with plenty of shrewdness and good common sense. He rode upon an ass which he dearly loved, and was noted for his proverbs.
Sancho Panza’s Ass, Dapple.
Sancho Panza’s Island-City, Barataria, where he was for a time governor.
Sancho Panza’s Wife, Teresa [Cascajo] (pt. II. i. 5); Maria or Mary [Gutierez] (pt. II. iv. 7); Dame Juana [Gutierez] (pt. I. i. 7); and Joan (pt. I. iv. 21).—Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15).