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URSULA 
  Constant at feasts, and each decorum knew, 
  And soon as the dessert appeared, withdrew. 
                  The Dispensary, i. (1699). 
   Urra'ca, sister of Sancho II. of Castile, 
 and queen of Zam6ra.-Poema del Cid 
 Campeador (1128). 
   Urre (Sir), one of the knights of the 
 Round Table. Being wounded, the king 
 and his chief knights tried on him the ef- 
 fect of "handling the wounds" (i.e., touch- 
 ing themn to heal them), but failed. At 
 last, Sir Launcelot was invited to try, and 
 as he touched the wounds they severally 
 healed.-Arthurian Romance. 
   Urrie (Sir John), a parliamentary leader. 
-Sir W. Scott, Legend of Montrose (time, 
Charles I.). 
   Ursa Major, Calisto, daughter of Ly- 
cdon, violated by Jupiter, and converted 
by Juno into a bear; whereupon the king 
of gods and man placed her in the Zodiac 
as a constellation. The Great Bear is also 
called "lHellicA." 
   Ursa Major. Dr. Johnson was so called 
by Boswell's father (1709-1784). 
  My father's opinion of Dr. Johnson may be 
conjectured from the name he afterwards gave 
him, which was "Ursa Major; " but it is not 
true, as has been reported, that it was in conse- 
quence of my saying that he was a constellation 
of genius and literature.-Boswell (1791). 
  Ursel (Zedekias), the imprisoned rival 
of the Emperor Alexius Comnnus of 
Greece.-Sir W. Scott, Count Robert of 
Paris (time, Rufus). 
  Ur'sula, mother of Elsie, and wife of 
Gottlieb [Got.leeb], a cottage farmer, of 
Bavaria.-lHartmann von der Aue, Poor 
Henry (twelfth   century); 
Golden Legend (1851). 
Longfellow 
    Ursula, a gentlewoman, attending on 
 Hero.-Shakespeare, Much Ado about Noth- 
 ing (1600). 
   Ursula, a silly old duenna, vain of her 
 saraband dancing; though not fair yet fat 
 and fully forty. Don Diego leaves Leo- 
 nora under her charge, but Leander soon 
 finds that a little flattery and a few gold 
 pieces will put the dragon to sleep, and 
 leave him free of the garden of his 
 Hesperid&s.-I. Bickerstaff, The Padlock 
 (1768). 
   Ursula (Sister), a disguise assumed at 
 St. Bride's, by the Lady Margaret de Haut- 
 lieu.-Sir W. Scott, Castle Dangerous (time, 
 Henry I.). 
   Ursula (Saint), daughter of Dianotus, 
 king of Cornwall (brother and successor 
 of Caradoc, king of Cornwall). She was 
 asked in marriage by Conan [Meriadoc] of 
 Armorica, or Little Britain. Going to 
 France with her maidens, the princess was 
 driven by adverse winds to Cologne, where 
 she and "her 11,000 virgins" were mar- 
 tyred by the Huns and Picts (October 21, 
 237). Visitors to Cologne are still shown 
 piles of skulls and bones heaped in the 
 wall, faced with glass, which the verger 
 asserts to be the relics of the martyred 
 virgins; but, like Iphis, they must have 
 changed their sex since death for most 
 undoubtedly many of the bones are those 
 of men and boys.-See Geoffrey, British 
History, v. 15,16. 
  A calendar in the Freisingen Codex no- 
tices them as "SS. XI. M. VIRGINUM" 
i.e., "eleven holy virgin martyrs;" but, by 
making the "M" into a Roman figure 
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