And gallop in a coach and six.
Two Strings to Your Bow, a farce by Jephson (1792). Lazarillo, wanting a master, enters the service of Don Felix and also of Octavio at the same time. He makes perpetual blunders, such as giving letters and money to the wrong master; but it turns out that Don Felix is Donna Clara, the betrothed of Octavio. The lovers meet at the Eagle hotel, recognize each other, and become man and wife.
Two Unlucky. In our dynasties two has been an unlucky number; thus: Ethelred II. was forced to abdicate; Harold II. was slain at Hastings; William II. was shot in the New Forest; Henry II. had to fight for his crown, which was usurped by Stephen; Edward II. was murdered at Berkeley Castle; Richard II. was deposed; Charles II. was driven into exile; James II. was obliged to abdicate; George II. was worsted at Fontenoy and Lawfeld, was disgraced by General Braddock and Admiral Byng, and was troubled by Charles Edward, the Young Pretender.
Tyb´alt, a fiery young nobleman of Verona, nephew to Lady Capŭlet, and cousin to Juliet. He is slain in combat by Ro´meo.--Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1595).
The name is given to the cat in the beast-epic called Reynard the Fox. Hence Mercutio calls him “rat-catcher” (act iii. sc. 1), and when Tybalt demands of him, “What wouldst thou have with me?” Mercutio replies, “Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine lives” (act iii. sc. 1).
Tybalt, a Lombard officer, in love with Laura, niece of Duke Gondibert. The story of Gondibert being unfinished, no sequel of this attachment is given.--Sir W. Davenant, Gondibert (died 1668).
Tybalt or Tibert, the cat in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox (1498).
Tyburn (Kings of), hangmen.
Tyburn Tree (The), a gallows; so called because criminals at one time hung on the elm trees which grew on the banks of the Tyburn. The “Holy Maid of Kent,” Mrs. Turner, the poisoner, Felton, the assassin of the duke of Buckingham, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, Lord Ferrers, who murdered his steward, Dr. Dodd and Mother Brownrigg, “all died in their shoes” on the Tyburn tree.
Since laws were made for every degree,