He says to Geraint: “I lost a great earldom as well as a city and castle, and this is how I lost them: I had a nephew, ... and when he came to his strength he demanded of me his property, but I withheld it from him. So he made war upon me, and wrested from me all that I possessed,”--Mabinogion (“Geraint, the Son of Erbin,” twelfth century).
Yoglan (Zacharias), the old Jew chemist, in London.--Sir W. Scott, Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth).
Yohak, the giant guardian of the caves of Babylon.--Southey, Thalaba, the Destroyer, v. (1797).
Yone, bewitching heroine of Edward H. House’s story, “A Child of Japan” (1888).
Yone, diminutive of Giorgione Willoughby, a self-willed, selfish, fascinating woman, who deliberately allures her cousin’s lover away from her, and finds when he has married her (Yone) that she has dazzled his fancy, not won his heart.--Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods (1863).
Yor´ick, the king of Denmark’s jester; “a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.”--Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1596).
Yorick (Mr.) is the name used by the Rev. Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768) as that of the author. In his other book, The Life and Opinions of Mr. Tristram Shandy (1759), where the Sentimental Journey appears, as it were, in embryo, Yorick is the name of one of the principal characters, and, as Sir Walter Scott remarks, “Yorick, the lively, witty, sensible and heedless parson is--Sterne himself.” The name was borrowed by Sterne from the Yorick of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
York (Geoffrey, archbishop of), one of the high justiciaries of England in the absence of Richard Cœur de Lion.--Sir W. Scott, The Talisman (time Richard I.).
York (James, duke of), introduced by Sir W. Scott, in Woodstock and in Peveril of the Peak.
Yorke (Oliver), pseudonym of Francis Sylvester Mahony, editor of Fraser’s Magazine. It is still edited under the same name.