Say ... wherefore his characters, thus without fault, ...
Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf,
He grew lazy at last, and drew men from himself.
Goldsmith, Retaliation (1774).
Tere´sa, the female associate of Ferdinand, Count Fathom.--Smollett, Count Fathom (1754).
Teresa d´Acunha, lady’s-maid of Joceline, countess of Glenallan.--Sir W. Scott, The Antiquary (time, George III.).
Teresa Panza, wife of Sancho Panza. In pt. I. i. 7 she is called Dame Juana [Gutierez]. In pt. II. iv. 7 she is called Maria [Gutierez]. In pt. I. iv. she is called Joan.--Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15).
Tereus [Te´.ruse], king of Daulis, and the husband of Procnê. Wishing afterwards to marry Philomēla, her sister, he told her that Procnê was dead. He lived with his new wife for a time, and then cut out her tongue, lest she should expose his falsehood to Procnê; but it was of no use, for Philomela made known her story in the embroidery of a peplus. Tereus rushed after Procnê with an axe, but the whole party were metamorphosed into birds. Tereus was changed into a hoopoo (some say a lapwing, and others an owl), Procnê into a swallow, and Philomela into a nightingale.
And the mute Silence hist along,
’Less Philomel will deign a song