Villalpando (Gaspar Cardillos de), a Spanish theologian, controversialist and commentator (1505-1570).
“Truly,” replied the canon, “I am better acquainted with books of chivalry than with Villalpando’s divinity.”--Cervantes, Don Quixote, I. iv. 17 (1605).
Ville´rius, in Davenant’s Siege of Rhodes (1656).
... pale with envy, Singleton foreswore
The lute and sword, which he in triumph bore,
And vowed he ne’er would act Villerius more.
Dryden, MacFlecknoe (1682).
⁂ This was a favorite part of Singleton.
Villers (Mr.), a gentleman who professed a supreme contempt for women, and declared, if he ever married, he should prefer Widow Racket to be his executioner.--Mrs. Cowley, The Belle’s Stratagem (1780).
Villiard, a villain from whose hands Charles Belmont rescued Fidelia.--E. Moore, The Foundling (1748).