*** “Sesostris,” in Fénelon’s Télémaque, is meant for Louis XIV.
Set´ebos, a deity of the Patagonians.
His art is of such power,
It would control my dam’s god Setebos.
Shakespeare, The Tempest (1609).
The giants, when they found themselves fettered, roared like bulls, and cried upon Setebos to help them.—Eden, History of Travayle.
Seth, a servant of the Jew at Ashby. Reuben is his fellow-servant.—Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).
Seth Fairchild. Young countryman, who is almost persuaded to be in love with Isabel, the wife of his brother, Albert. Albert is killed—it is supposed, accidentally—and Isabel, assuming that Seth has murdered him, and for her sake, promises to keep the deed secret. The horror of the supposition and her readiness to believe him capable of the crime, dispels Seth’s unholy illusion and sends him back to his first love, who has always been his good angel.—Harold Frederic, Seth’s Brother’s Wife (1887).
Settle (Elkana), the poet, introduced by Sir W. Scott in Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).
Seven Champions of Christendom (The): St. George for England; St. Andrew for Scotland; St. Patrick for Ireland; St. David for Wales; St. Denis for France; St. James for Spain; and St. Anthony for Italy.
*** Richard Johnson wrote The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom (1617).
Seven, Rienzi’s Number.