Satyrane (Sir), a blunt, but noble knight, who helps Una to escape from the fauns and satyrs.—Spenser, Faëry Queen, i. (1590).
And passion erst unknown, could gain
The breast of blunt Sir Satyrane.
Sir W. Scott.
*** “Sir Satyrane” is meant for Sir John Perrot, a natural son of Henry VIII., and lord deputy of Ireland, from 1583 to 1588; but, in 1590, he was in prison in the Tower for treason, and was beheaded in 1592.
Satyr´icon, a comic romance in Latin, by Petro´nius Ar´biter, in the first century. Very gross, but showing great power, beauty, and skill.
Saul, in Dryden’s satire of Absalom and Achitophel, is meant for Oliver Cromwell. As Saul persecuted David, and drove him from Jerusalem, so Cromwell persecuted Charles II., and drove him from England.
... ere Saul they chose,
God was their king, and God they durst depose.
Pt. i. (1681).
*** This was the “divine right” of kings.
Saunders, groom of Sir Geoffrey Peveril of the Peak.—Sir W. Scott, Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).
Saunders (Richard), the pseudonym of Dr. Franklin, adopted in Poor Richard’s Almanac, begun in 1732.
Saunders Sweepclean, a king’s messenger, at Knockwinnock Castle.—Sir W. Scott, The Antiquary (time George III.).